Dean Morin added the comment:
Fair enough, how about just making it clearer in the documentation? Currently
you need to look at the source code to see what would be required for a
signature clash to occur. Maybe something like:
Note that the [os.stat()](https://docs.python.org/3/library
New submission from Dean Morin :
By default `filecmp.cmp()` has `shallow=True` which can produce some surprising
behavior.
In the docs it states:
> If shallow is true, files with identical os.stat() signatures are taken to be
> equal.
However the "signature" only conside
