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From: "Jin Guojun[ITG]" <jin@george.lbl.gov>
Message-Id: <199611181747.JAA07051@george.lbl.gov>
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: diff somehow does not work properly in 2.2-ALPHA
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I placed the ktrace.out at ftp://george.lbl.gov/pub/tmp/ktrace.out

This time is :
	# diff ~jin/services /etc
because "# diff ~jin/src/unix/bsd44/etc/backup/services /etc" works somehow.

The real diff is:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
iss-p1.lbl.gov: diff ~/services /etc
12c12
< #     $Id: services,v 1.27 1996/09/13 01:52:49 pst Exp $
---
> #     $Id: services,v 1.11.4.7 1996/06/17 09:17:16 jkh Exp $
904d903
< skkserv               1178/tcp   #SKK (kanji input)
1371a1371,1374
> s_master      1900/tcp        magic_master
> s_master      1910/udp        magic_master
> stest0                1920/tcp
> stest0                1920/udp
1496,1498d1498
< zephyr-clt      2103/udp   #Zephyr serv-hm connection
< zephyr-hm       2104/udp   #Zephyr hostmanager
< zephyr-hm-srv 2105/udp   #Zephyr hm-serv connection
1520d1519
< sj3           3086/tcp   #SJ3 (kanji input)
1564,1565c1563
< fax           4557/tcp   #FAX transmission service
< hylafax               4559/tcp   #HylaFAX client-server protocol
---
> fax           4557/tcp                # FAX transmission service
1673d1670
< amanda                10080/udp  #Dump server control
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

It seems that the problem is only with root. 

}As Jin Guojun[ITG] wrote:
}> # uname -a
}> FreeBSD iss-p1.lbl.gov 2.2-ALPHA FreeBSD 2.2-ALPHA #0: Thu Nov 14 13:16:47 PST
} 1996     root@iss-p1.lbl.gov:/usr/src/sys/compile/ATM  i386
}> # 
}> # diff ~jin/src/unix/bsd44/etc/backup/services /etc
}> diff: write error
}
}Can you ktrace it to see which file it tries to write?
}
}-- 
}cheers, J"org