On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 10:40:03AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >Is anyone else experiencing this? Today I updated to the new >diffutils-2.8.1-1, and now I can't perform diff on files: > >$ echo line 1 > a.txt >$ echo line 2 >> a.txt >$ echo line 2 >> b.txt >$ echo line 3 >> b.txt >$ cat a.txt b.txt >line 1 >line 2 >line 2 >line 3 >$ diff a.txt b.txt >diff: a.txt: Invalid argument >$ diff -- a.txt b.txt >diff: a.txt: Invalid argument > >As the same version of diff is working fine on my Linux box, I suspect >there is a cygwin-related bug.
I could reproduce this but only on Windows 95 and only on a network drive. It is either a Windows bug or a Cygwin bug. Regardless, I've worked around it in the Cygwin DLL. A fix should be in the next snapshot. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/