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

[Andreas Schwab]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> address@hidden (Bob Proulx) wrote:
>>> This doesn't seem a particularly satisfying result as it doesn't seem
>>> like a reasonable outcome.
>>
>> Have you looked at the --count-links option?
>>
>>   -l, --count-links     count sizes many times if hard linked
>
> That goes too far.  What I would naïvely expect is that "du -s a b" and
> "du -s a; du -s b" produces the same output.

I just checked various *BSD manpages, and they explicitly say to count
hard links only once per invocation, so it is probably better to stay
compatible here.  (POSIX is not that clear in this point, but it appears
to be a valid interpretation.)

Andreas.

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