bug#10281: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit

2011-12-17 Thread Jim Meyering
Alan Curry wrote: ... > By comparison to a proper tool which doesn't do any unnecessary traversals of > extra directories, your use of du is slow and brittle (if the user forgets > an alternate directory containing a link, the result is wrong) and has only > the slight advantage of already being im

bug#10281: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit

2011-12-17 Thread Alan Curry
Paul Eggert writes: > > On 12/16/11 18:36, Alan Curry wrote: > > The straightforward method would be to simply the directory you intend to > > remove and keep track of the discrepancy between st_nlink and how many links > > you've seen. > > Sorry, I can't parse that. But whatever it is, it sound