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| -rw-r--r-- | editors/diff.c | 25 |
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diff --git a/editors/diff.c b/editors/diff.c index ca4a4eae7..3719bb49f 100644 --- a/editors/diff.c +++ b/editors/diff.c @@ -952,6 +952,31 @@ int diff_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv) if (gotstdin && (S_ISDIR(stb[0].st_mode) || S_ISDIR(stb[1].st_mode))) bb_error_msg_and_die("can't compare stdin to a directory"); + /* Compare metadata to check if the files are the same physical file. + * + * Comment from diffutils source says: + * POSIX says that two files are identical if st_ino and st_dev are + * the same, but many file systems incorrectly assign the same (device, + * inode) pair to two distinct files, including: + * GNU/Linux NFS servers that export all local file systems as a + * single NFS file system, if a local device number (st_dev) exceeds + * 255, or if a local inode number (st_ino) exceeds 16777215. + */ + if (ENABLE_DESKTOP + && stb[0].st_ino == stb[1].st_ino + && stb[0].st_dev == stb[1].st_dev + && stb[0].st_size == stb[1].st_size + && stb[0].st_mtime == stb[1].st_mtime + && stb[0].st_ctime == stb[1].st_ctime + && stb[0].st_mode == stb[1].st_mode + && stb[0].st_nlink == stb[1].st_nlink + && stb[0].st_uid == stb[1].st_uid + && stb[0].st_gid == stb[1].st_gid + ) { + /* files are physically the same; no need to compare them */ + return STATUS_SAME; + } + if (S_ISDIR(stb[0].st_mode) && S_ISDIR(stb[1].st_mode)) { #if ENABLE_FEATURE_DIFF_DIR diffdir(file, s_start); |