On 2008-02-26 20:49, Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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.
Each command-line argument is traversed separately, so I'm a bit confused about what the amortization gains us. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
