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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 1998-09-13 05:33:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 1998-09-13 05:33:07 +0000 |
| commit | 064482a2366d06a1b299c26cb6f1dd7001e1d7d5 (patch) | |
| tree | 2848e5e73761cd3c6a1b6c23787a45579f709a10 /README | |
| parent | 27d11e852fec1a55420b928e75ba2cc3012ab5f1 (diff) | |
| download | diffutils-064482a2366d06a1b299c26cb6f1dd7001e1d7d5.tar.gz | |
Add --with-mvfs-stat-bug, --with-nfs-stat-bug.
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@@ -1,9 +1,29 @@ This directory contains the GNU diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp utilities. Their features are a superset of the Unix features and they are -significantly faster. cmp has been moved here from the GNU textutils. +significantly faster. See the file COPYING for copying conditions. -See the file diff.texi (or diff.info*) for documentation. +See the file diff.texi (or diff.info*) for documentation that can be printed + with TeX, or read with the `info' program or with Emacs's `M-x info'. + There are no man pages. See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions. +The `configure' command has special options to work around bugs +in some buggy file systems: + + configure --with-mvfs-stat-bug + Work around ClearCase MVFS bug id ATRia04618. + + configure --with-nfs-stat-bug + Work around a buggy NFS servers that assign the same + (device number, inode number) pair to two distinct files. + + This bug can occur with Linux NFS servers + that export all local filesystems as a single NFS filesystem, + if a local device number (st_dev) exceeds 255, + or if a local inode number (st_ino) exceeds 16777215. + + This bug also can occur with Network Appliance NFS servers + in snapshot directories; see Netapp bug#1780. + Report bugs to bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu |