Acincy.1017
net.bugs.2bsd
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!cbosg!cincy!root
Mon Apr 19 23:11:13 1982
Bug in diff
The following bug is in the 2.8BSD diff:  When a diff -r is done,
the directories are sorted by qsort before comparisons are done.
The second argument to qsort is a long (because st_size is long,)
but qsort wants an int.  The arguments get screwed up and the sort
never happens...  The fix is as follows:

diff diffdir.c diffdir.old

198c198
       qsort(dp, stb.st_size / sizeof (struct direct),

       Jim Reuter

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