Hello.
Tim Newsham wrote:
Would be nice if DU could print out the cost of the storage rather than the number of blocks. The following code shows an example of this (option -$ reads a cost from /usr/share/du-cost and applies it before printout out the result).
Haha. Nice idea. I can think of a couple of problems with the patch:
* It doesn't distinguish between IDE and SCSI disks, not to mention other forms of storage (e.g.: NAS mounted over NFS). So it ignores the real cost of the storage, which isn't just a simple bucks per Meg.
* I think it should read from something like /usr/share/<package>/du-cost rather than /usr/share, where <package> is coreutils-5.2.1 or similar. (fileutils is now part of coreutils, along with sh-utils and textutils).
* It doesn't support internationalisation. Where is its support for the Euro, the Yen, the Yuan, Norweigan Kroner, etc.? Perhaps you could use xe.com, to do the currency conversion on-the-fly?
[snip]--- du.c.orig Fri Jun 18 15:51:04 2004 +++ du.c Fri Jun 18 16:09:07 2004
@@ -758,6 +775,26 @@
default:
usage (1);
}
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * ick! look at these indents! placement of braces and
+ * spaces around parenthesis! Who wrote this, the french!?
+ * oh well, I will try to abide by their horrible style rules.
+ */
[snip]
It's the GNU Coding Style, I suspect.
Incidentally, I'm one-eighth French and I find that comment incredibly offensive. The other seven-eighths of me doesn't care, but suggests that this comment isn't really appropriate. 8)
Bye, Rich =]
-- Richard Dawe [ http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~phekda/richdawe/ ]
"You can't evaluate a man by logic alone." -- McCoy, "I, Mudd", Star Trek
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