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bug#10282: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit efe5
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Paul Eggert |
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bug#10282: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit efe53cc) |
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Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:45:22 -0800 |
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On 12/12/11 14:58, Eric Blake wrote:
> "Files with multiple links shall be counted and written for only one
> entry. The directory entry that is selected in the report is unspecified."
Yes, that's partly what motivates the current GNU du behavior:
the idea is to implement this notion consistently (historical
'du' implementations do not).
> But even historically, command line arguments were always listed, even
> if they are otherwise multiple links.
I suppose we could change GNU 'du' to output "0 X" for a command-line
argument X that's already been seen. This wouldn't address the problem
perceived by the original poster, though. And it's a glitch from the
point of view of consistency.
Perhaps 'du' needs a new option to control what to do with
files that 'du' has already seen before. something that
generalizes --count-links.
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- bug#10281: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit efe53cc), Elliott Forney, 2011/12/16
- bug#10281: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit efe53cc), Eric Blake, 2011/12/16
- bug#10281: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit efe53cc), Eric Blake, 2011/12/16
- bug#10281: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit efe53cc), Voelker, Bernhard, 2011/12/19
bug#10282: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit efe53cc), Eric Blake, 2011/12/12
- bug#10282: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit efe53cc), Eric Blake, 2011/12/12
- bug#10282: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit efe53cc),
Paul Eggert <=
- bug#10282: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit efe53cc), Jim Meyering, 2011/12/13
- bug#10282: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit efe53cc), Kamil Dudka, 2011/12/13
- bug#10282: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit efe53cc), Paul Eggert, 2011/12/13
- bug#10282: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit efe53cc), Eric Blake, 2011/12/13
- bug#10282: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit efe53cc), Kamil Dudka, 2011/12/13
- bug#10282: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit efe53cc), Eric Blake, 2011/12/13
- bug#10282: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit efe53cc), Paul Eggert, 2011/12/13