Re: Bug diff: no difference between 0 byte files and no files.

[J.C. Pizarro]

2007/7/31, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
> "J.C. Pizarro" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Differences between dir1 and dir2 from diff:
> > Only in dir1: empty.out
>
> This is exactly how POSIX requires the output to be.

Do you joke?

Only in dir1: empty.out

No size info?
No date info?
No owner info?
No unix's permissions/mask info?

It's a problem of its output's format.

It lacks a lot of information of the file like the size, the date of
creation/modification, the owner, the permissions/mask, the
path, etc.

J.C. sincerely yours :)