On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 07:06:43PM +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Implement from scratch a -l option for du(1), to match the same option > of the GNU utility. The default behavior of our original `du' is to > count hardlinked files only once for each invocation of the utility. > With the new -l option they count towards the final size every time > they are found.
The third possible option is to amortize the size of hardlinked files across all their occurrences by adding size/nlinks each time they are found. IMHO, this results in the least "surprises" in the result. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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