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bug#10282: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit efe5
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Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
bug#10282: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit efe53cc) |
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Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:09:08 +0100 |
Paul Eggert wrote:
> 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 seems sensible.
> This wouldn't address the problem
> perceived by the original poster, though. And it's a glitch from the
> point of view of consistency.
I agree that printing "0 X" for these seems inconsistent with the
elision mandated for the second and subsequent encounter of a file,
but I suppose command line arguments are intrinsically different
enough that handling them specially makes sense. Maybe even as
the default.
> Perhaps 'du' needs a new option to control what to do with
> files that 'du' has already seen before. something that
> generalizes --count-links.
That sounds like a good way to do it.
Anyone interested?
- bug#10281: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit, (continued)
- 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, 2011/12/12
- bug#10282: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit efe53cc),
Jim Meyering <=
- 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