Re: du bug

[Eric Blake]

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[please keep replies on the list, so that others may chime in]

According to Robin McAdam on 3/21/2009 7:26 PM:
>> That warning was in place to warn of a future change in behavior.  The
>> change has now been completed, and you will not get that warning in
>> coreutils 7.1.  But if I guessed wrong, then you will have to be more
>> explicit on how what you posted shows a bug (that is, give us more
>> details
>> on what actually happened vs. what you expected to happen).
>>

> Documents\ and\ Settings/
> is reported as both 1.5G  and 4.5G

Thanks for calling attention to that.  From your original report,

address@hidden:/mnt/160G-1$ du -s --si  * Documents\ and\ Settings/
...
4.5G    Documents and Settings
...
1.5G    Documents and Settings/

I can explain why it is listed twice - you listed it twice on the command
line (once via * without a trailing slash, and once and via explicit
naming with the slash).  But I'm not sure why the two values are coming
back differently.  Maybe an experiment on a smaller directory is in order?
 Maybe someone else can point to something to look at?

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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