GNU bug report logs - #41664
du give file not accessible

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Sumit Gupta <sumitg1011 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 15:04:03 UTC

Severity: normal

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Message #8 received at 41664 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Sumit Gupta <sumitg1011 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 41664 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41664: du give file not accessible
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 08:28:56 -0700
On 6/2/20 2:42 AM, Sumit Gupta wrote:
> Is this expected or shall the command be modified to ignore such files?

It does seem reasonable that 'du' should ignore a file when the system call says
ENOENT, since the file isn't there and cannot be consuming disk space.




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