Subject: bug#10281: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments (commit efe53cc)

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 09:03:16 -0600

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