Bug#1004198: diffoscope: show no diff between device and crafted text file

Jakub Wilk jwilk at jwilk.net
Sat Jan 22 16:58:45 GMT 2022


Package: diffoscope
Version: 201
Severity: minor

diffoscope doesn't see the difference between /dev/null and this crafted 
text file:

    $ printf 'device:character\nmajor: 1\nminor: 3\n' > fakenull
    $ diffoscope /dev/null fakenull && echo NO DIFFERENCE
    NO DIFFERENCE

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Jakub Wilk



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