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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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