Thanks for the report.
That is fixed in the latest test release:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/fileutils-4.0q.tar.gz
Guenther Starnberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| when i start du from a directory on which i don't have read access for the
| user running du and want to run du on another directory it fails with the
| message "du: cannot open current directory: Permission denied"
|
| i'm not sure, but i think the reason for this is in the function du_files()
| in du.c
|
| /* Remember the inode and device number of the current directory. */
| if (stat (".", &stat_buf))
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| afaik this line needs read access to the working directory.
|
| i would consider this as a bug in the du utility.
