I do not know what is the historical reason for program diff to follow
a symbolic link during the recursive diff (-r), but it seems not to be a
proper implementation.
If both compared directories contains a sym-link, which point to
a same file or directory, it obviously no need to compare it
This is my first time to install FreeBSD 5.x/6.x on a USB drive, so I am
not sure
if the boot/reboot problem is particular to this drive (SimpleTech
SP-U25/60), or
it is a generic USB issue (I do not have a second USB drive to confirm
the problem).
This USB device contains a WDC WD60
Is diff program supposed to have a switch at command line to disable
following
(ignore) symbolic links when -r switch is given, like many other
programs do?
In many places, a directory or source file can be symbolically linked
multiple times to
different archives. Since the original source
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