GNU bug report logs - #61884
add an option to du that allows to control which file types are counted

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo <at> scientia.org>

Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2023 03:20:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 61884 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo <at> scientia.org>
Cc: 61884 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#61884: add an option to du that allows to control which file
 types are counted
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2023 14:58:25 -0800

What's the motivation here? Does this have something to do with 
reproducible builds?

One possibility is for --apparent-size to always count 0 for 
directories, since 'read' never returns a positive number on 
directories. That is, we reinterpret --apparent-size to mean "bytes that 
could be read" rather than "what st_size says".
This bug report was last modified 2 years and 128 days ago.

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