Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 17:54:13 -0600
From: Rob Landley <[email protected]>
To: toybox <[email protected]>
Subject: [Toybox] Do you suppose this du -b patch is worth it?
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Every month or so I try to catch up on the busybox list and I saw somebody
request du -b there, so I spent the half hour to make and smoketest a toybox
version, and now I'm wondering if it's worth adding?
Patch attached if you're curious. (See comment about how it doesn't scale on 32
bit, not that android cares anymore and _not_ having it doesn't exactly scale
any better...)
Rob
Last time I came across this being used was when a computer programming
student was creating a packing program as his class project. He forgot
to allow for the >
--apparent-size > print apparent sizes, rather than disk usage;
although the apparent size is usually smaller, it may be larger due to
holes in ('sparse') files, internal fragmentation, indirect blocks, and
the like.
He spent weeks trying to work out why his program kept ocasionally
failing before asking for help and it was pointed out to him.
(Right as I was getting over my previous cold I got a different cold, which is
just lovely and means I'm not really trusting my technical judgement right now.
Wheee. Tis the season I guess.)
Good luck, were in the 30's and 40's C here, i'd love to have somewhere
cool to sleep.
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