From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Apr 3 16:18:29 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA23380 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 16:18:29 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA23374 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 16:18:26 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id QAA04477; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 16:18:05 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id QAA02943; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 16:18:05 -0700 Message-Id: <199504032318.QAA02943@corbin.Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: corbin.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: schwarz@alpharel.com (Steven Schwarz) cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bug in cmp(1) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 03 Apr 95 16:59:37 EDT." <9504032059.AA18331@pooter> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 16:18:03 -0700 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I believe I may have just encountered a bug in cmp(1). After copying >a .a file, I did cmp on the original and the copy. cmp(1) erroneously >found a difference at byte 131073 (== 0x20001, in case that is a clue?). No, you found a bug in the kernel. What version of FreeBSD are you running? We've fixed problems like this in the past... -DG