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Weird 'du' behavior. Bug in coreutils-8.15 ?

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Daniel Stavrovski <d <at> stavrovski.net>
Subject: bug#10967: closed (Re: bug#10967: Weird 'du' behavior. Bug in
 coreutils-8.15 ?)
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:23:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#10967: Weird 'du' behavior. Bug in coreutils-8.15 ?

which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 10967 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: 10967-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10967: Weird 'du' behavior. Bug in coreutils-8.15 ?
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:21:35 +0100

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 03/08/2012 11:39 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> On 03/08/2012 10:36 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> ...
>>>> Subject: [PATCH] du: --one-file-system (-x) ignores non-directory arguments
>>>
>>> I find it a bit easier to parse if the summary describes
>>> the change rather than the bug. So something like:
>>>
>>> du: fix -x to include non-directory arguments
>>
>> Thanks for the quick feedback.
>>
>> I see your point, but prefer not to use "include", because that
>> might evoke du's --exclude or --exclude-from options.
>> How about this?
>>
>>   du: fix -x: don't ignore non-directory arguments
>
> perfect

With that, I pushed yesterday and am closing the ticket now.

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From: Daniel Stavrovski <d <at> stavrovski.net>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Weird 'du' behavior. Bug in coreutils-8.15 ?
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 18:46:09 -0600

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┌─[01:17:15]-[root <at> stavrovski]-[~]
└─› mkdir /tmp/another_test/ && for i in $(seq 1 20); do dd if=/dev/zero
of=/tmp/another_test/file-$i  bs=1024  count=10240 ; done

┌─[01:17:17]-[root <at> stavrovski]-[~]
└─› ls -1 /tmp/another_test/* | wc -l
20

┌─[01:17:36]-[root <at> stavrovski]-[~]
└─› du -csxh /tmp/another_test/*
0       total

┌─[01:28:19]-[root <at> stavrovski]-[~]
└─› du --version
du (GNU coreutils) 8.15
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Torbjörn Granlund, David MacKenzie, Paul Eggert,
and Jim Meyering.

┌─[01:39:04]-[root <at> stavrovski]-[~]
└─› cat /etc/issue
Arch Linux \r (\l)

┌─[01:39:22]-[root <at> stavrovski]-[~]
└─› pacman -Qs coreutils
local/coreutils 8.15-1 (base)

with coreutils-8.14 du is working as expected.

strace => http://pastebin.com/dPAKCNwF

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