Bug in mc

["Jakusev, Alexandr" <Alexandr Jakusev partner commerzbank com>]

Hi all,

 

I have a problem running mc on Solaris :

 

$ mc --version

GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.5

Built with GLib 2.8.1

Using the S-Lang library with terminfo database

With builtin Editor

With subshell support as default

With support for background operations

With mouse support on xterm

With support for X11 events

With internationalization support

With multiple codepages support

Virtual File Systems: cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ftpfs, fish

Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 32; void *: 32; size_t: 32; off_t: 64;

 

Our system has an old version of diff that does not support -a flag. When mc invokes it for file comparison purposes, it returns error saying that such flag is not recognised. Upon such event, mc crashes happily. While there are many ways to work around this issue, I don't think that mc should crash.

 

Kind regards

Alex