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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org (FreeBSD bugs list), jin@george.lbl.gov
Subject: Re: diff somehow does not work properly in 2.2-ALPHA 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 18 Nov 96 14:41:47 PST."
             <199611182241.XAA02531@uriah.heep.sax.de> 
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 11:53:05 PST
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <199611182241.XAA02531@uriah.heep.sax.de> you write:
>Seems to be intentional.

No.  Stdout got closed before any of the input files were opened.
The events were:

1. stdout got closed.
2. files got opened.
3. files got read and compared.
4. output attempts to be written.
5. writing to closed stdout fails, so print error.

  Bill