Paul Eggert wrote: > On 12/12/11 04:50, Kamil Dudka wrote: >> Was such a change in behavior intended? I am asking as I was not able to >> find it documented anywhere. > > It was intended, as it provides useful functionality that > can't be done if hard links aren't tracked across arguments, > whereas the reverse isn't true. It's documented in > <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#du-invocation>, > which says: > > If two or more hard links point to the same file, > only one of the hard links is counted. The file > argument order affects which links are counted, > and changing the argument order may change the > numbers that du outputs. > > Perhaps this isn't sufficiently clear, and if so, > suggestions for improvements are welcome.
FYI, Kamil's original mail never to have reached the mailing list[*], in spite of reaching debbugs and acquiring a bug number and then going on to reach Paul (the Cc'd recipient). Kamil or Paul, would you please post the original, for the record? Jim [*] Ward Vandewege confirmed that the message reached debbugs but somehow was not passed on to eggs.gnu.org.
