MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 1

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Message: strcoll error, cannot malloc space.

Cause: There are not enough free system resources to allocate string space.

Action: Free up more resources.

Message: too many lines in file "ﬁlename"

Cause: The ﬁle ﬁlename contained more than the value of the conﬁguration variable

INT_MAX. Without the –h option, diff cannot handle a ﬁle that large.

Action: Use the –h option.

Message: Unknown option "–option"

Cause: You speciﬁed an option that is not valid for diff.

Action: Check the DESCRIPTION section of this man page for a list of valid diff

options.

Message: unlink temp file: system error

Cause: See syserror(3).

Action: See syserror(3).

Message: write error on standard output: system error

Cause: See syserror(3).

Action: See syserror(3).

Message: write error on temporary file: system error

Cause: See syserror(3).

Action: See syserror(3).

LIMITS

The longest input line is 1024 bytes. Except under bdiff and –h, ﬁles are limited to

INT_MAX lines.

PORTABILITY

POSIX.2. x/OPEN Portability Guide 4.0. All UNIX systems.

The –D, –f, –H, –h, –i, –m, –n, –s, –t, and –w options; the n argument to the –c option;

and the diffh and bdiff versions of the command are all extensions to the POSIX standard.

MPE/iX NOTES

For information on how the current MPE/iX implementation may affect the operation of this

utility, see Appendix A, MPE/iX Implementation Considerations.