GNU bug report logs - #10281
du: hard-links counting with multiple arguments (commit

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:02:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Merged with 10282, 11526

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #84 received at 10281 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Elliott Forney <idfah <at> cs.colostate.edu>
Cc: 10281 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10281: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments
	(commit efe53cc)
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:09:57 -0600

On 02/16/2013 03:59 AM, Elliott Forney wrote:
> Does anyone know if anything ever happened with this?  Did we get clarification
> on POSIX?
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.
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