diff panics (broken-pipe unwrap) when its stdout is closed early

Inizia con le scritture dell'output identificate in src/diff.rs:94 e src/side_diff.rs:353-356, quindi riproduci entrambi i casi, normale e affiancato, usando i comandi seq, sed e head forniti. Verifica che l'output verso una pipe chiusa non causi più un panic né stampi un errore e che entrambe le modalità terminino con lo stato SIGPIPE previsto, come GNU diff.

Summary

When diff's standard output is a pipe whose reader closes early (e.g. diff … | head), uutils diff aborts with a panic (exit 134, core dump)
instead of dying cleanly to SIGPIPE like GNU (exit 141). The output is written with a bare .unwrap() on the write_all/push_output result; the BrokenPipe error is unwrapped and, under panic="abort", aborts the process. This affects every output mode: the normal/context/unified/ed path writes the buffered result in src/diff.rs:94, and the side-by-side (-y) path writes each line in src/side_diff.rs:353-356.

Steps to reproduce

$ seq 1 100000 > b1; seq 1 100000 | sed 's/5/X/' > b2
$ diffutils diff b1 b2 | head -1
thread 'main' panicked at src/diff.rs:94:41:
called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Os { code: 32, kind: BrokenPipe, message: "Broken pipe" }
$ echo "${PIPESTATUS[0]}"
134

Side-by-side mode hits the sibling site src/side_diff.rs:353:

$ diffutils diff -y b1 b2 | head -1
thread 'main' panicked at src/side_diff.rs:353:87:
called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Os { code: 32, kind: BrokenPipe, message: "Broken pipe" }
$ echo "${PIPESTATUS[0]}"
134

Expected behavior

Match GNU: a closed output pipe terminates the program via SIGPIPE (exit 141) with no error message and no core dump.

$ /usr/bin/diff b1 b2 | head -1
1c1
$ echo "${PIPESTATUS[0]}"
141
$ /usr/bin/diff -y b1 b2 | head -1
1                            <      1
$ echo "${PIPESTATUS[0]}"
141

Root cause

The full diff output (normal/context/unified/ed) is buffered and written once:

// src/diff.rs:94
io::stdout().write_all(&result).unwrap();

Side-by-side writes each line straight to the locked stdout and unwraps every
write:

// src/side_diff.rs:353-356
push_output(...).unwrap();   // and the sibling unwraps at :354, :356

Any write_all/push_output error — BrokenPipe in the common pipe-closed case — is unwrapped and aborts.

Found by our static analysis tooling.