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df command, possible bug?

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
Cc: 16539 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16539: More details on df command output for you
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:36:08 +0100

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On 06/20/2014 01:23 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 06/18/2014 07:21 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> The attached 2 patches on top of current master,
>> should address your suggested tweaks and above ordering issue.
> 
> Thanks. Both patches look good.
> 
> The whole story is already rather long, so I almost don't dare
> to come up with it ... but there is one last issue left with
> eclipsed file systems:
> 
>   $ mount /dev/sda5 /mnt
> 
>   $ src/df /mnt
>   Filesystem     1K-blocks   Used Available Use% Mounted on
>   /dev/sda5      206424760 440500 195482116   1% /mnt
> 
>   $ mount -o loop tmp.img /mnt
> 
>   $ src/df /mnt        # correct: search by mount point
>   Filesystem     1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
>   /dev/loop0         59365  1308     53471   3% /mnt
> 
>   $ src/df /dev/sda5   # wrong: search by device
>   Filesystem     1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
>   /dev/sda5          59365  1308     53471   3% /mnt

Fingers crossed this is the last df issue.
df is getting quite messy and could do with a refactoring
to use prepopulate hashes from /proc/self/mountinfo,
but not for this iteration at least.

Proposed test attached.

thanks,
Pádraig.

[df-dev-eclipse.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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