severity 10281 wishlist
tags 10281 wontfix
retitle 10281 du: hard-links counting with multiple arguments (commit
efe53cc)
close 10281
(triaging old bugs)
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On 18/02/13 01:18 AM, Elliott Forney wrote:
>> My reading of <http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=527#c1104>
>> is that POSIX allows but does not require the current GNU behavior,
>> and that future versions of POSIX may require the current GNU behavior.
>
> Thanks Paul, I agree with your reading of this. Sounds like POSIX
> allows both the new and old behaviors.
Long and interesting thread about du, hard-links, and POSIX interpretations,
but with no follow-up in 5 years and no change in du's behavior,
I'm closing this bug.
regards,
- assaf
