Re: du reports different results for "." (proposed patch)

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (Bob Proulx) writes:

> Fun how the total directory size just keeps getting smaller and
> smaller.  With enough hard links the directory has disappeared!  I
> will add this to my list of stupid filesystem tricks.
>
> This doesn't seem a particularly satisfying result as it doesn't seem
> like a reasonable outcome.

Perhaps we should reset the list of encountered hard links with every
file argument?

Andreas.

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