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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Markus Holmberg <markush@acc.umu.se>
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Subject: Re: Unified diff format in output of /etc/security? 
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:17:48 +0200, Markus Holmberg wrote:

> Is there a reason to not have the diff output of /etc/security to be         
> of unified format?

Yes; the output of a diff on setuid executables is less readable as a
unified diff -- you get lots of meaningless lines of output.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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