Re: Fwd: Re: bug with diff 2.8.1

[jdeifik]

---- Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote: 
> <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I consider it a bug if diff runs out of memory on identical files.
> 
> One could modify 'diff' to recognize the case of identical text files
> that are too large to fit into main memory.  This seems relatively low
> priority in general, though.  Perhaps you could take on the task of
> fixing 'diff', if this special case is important for your work?  I'd
> welcome such a patch if it was cleanly written.

I might do that in a few weeks. Right now, I am working overtime,
and I have my kludge of a script in python that runs cmp -l recursively.
I will keep you posted.

jdeifik