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Date:      Tue, 25 Jul 2000 05:30:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/20143: "cmp -s" broken when reading a pipe 
Message-ID:  <200007251230.FAA43639@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/20143; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: trost@cloud.rain.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/20143: "cmp -s" broken when reading a pipe 
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 14:19:50 +0200

 On 24 Jul 2000 16:52:56 GMT, trost@cloud.rain.com wrote:
 
 > 	"cmp -s" will incorrectly report that files are different if
 > 	one of the files is standard input.
 
 I think that this is because -s implies -z (not mentioned in the manual
 page).
 
 Ciao,
 Sheldon.
 


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