On 12/13/2011 10:37 AM, Kamil Dudka wrote: > On Tuesday 13 December 2011 18:16:12 Eric Blake wrote: >> I think the proposal is to add a new option that forces du to reset its >> duplicate inode hash table for each command line argument, to make >> behavior more like traditional du, even though it means -s can then >> output a larger usage by summing the first column than what you would >> get by the default behavior, when encountering command line arguments >> that are a duplicate with an inode already traversed earlier in the >> command line. --count-links isn't quite right, because you still want >> to elide links within a single directory of the command-line argument. >> Or maybe --count-links gains an optional argument, that says how to >> count links: >> >> --count-links=none -> POSIX behavior (if POSIX requires elision across >> command line arguments >> --count-links=per-directory -> traditional behavior, resetting hash >> between command line arguments >> --count-links == --count-links=all -> count every file on every encounter > > What would be the difference between the 'per-directory' variant and invoking > du multiple times, giving it one argument at a time?
Fewer forks. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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