Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, Reini Urban Subject: Re: bug in du References: <302d72f2c4cb7d883558c713e211f68b@NO-ID-FOUND.mhonarc.org> <428A7ADF.20409@x-ray.at> <428B3B5C.60306@byu.net> <428B408B.7050902@byu.net> From: Paul Eggert Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 16:36:29 -0700 In-Reply-To: <428B408B.7050902@byu.net> (Eric Blake's message of "Wed, 18 May 2005 07:18:03 -0600") Message-ID: <87sm0k5coy.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Eric Blake writes: > One possible fix is revisiting line 377 in src/du.c in CVS, which > currently skips hard links only if a file has multiple links. Sorry, I don't quite follow this. Don't all the directories in question have multiple links? Or, if you're talking about walking through the directory multiple times and discarding each file you find, that sounds pretty slow. > The other fix would be to also check directories for identical > inodes, and not descending through a directory by a second spelling > if it has already been visited once. That makes more sense to me, anyway: directories should be treated like other files. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/