GNU bug report logs - #11526
du: hard-links counting with multiple arguments (commit

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 16:57:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Merged with 10281, 10282

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 10281 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10281: change in behavior of du with multiple arguments
 (commit efe53cc)
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)

[...]
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
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 303 days ago.

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