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gnuwin32 du fails at "C:\Program Files"

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From: pklammer <at> hidglobal.com
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: gnuwin32 du fails at "C:\Program Files"
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 18:54:01 -0600

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On XP SP3, 12GB drive, du quits at (i.e., just before) my directory 
"C:\Program Files\".

Command is just "du" given at root directory: "C:\>du{Enter}"

If the last directory before Program Files is "C:\oracle\" then the last 
lines listed are like:

12345 ./oracle/foo
23456 ./oracle
34567 .

If I rename "oracle" to "Zoracle", then the last lines from du are like:

1234 ./MyProjects/bar
2345 ./MyProjects
3456 .

in other words, du lists directories up to, and not including, my Program 
Files directory (in alphabetical order).

Is there any debug switch to enable, short of recompilation from source 
with debug printfs?

C:\Program Files\gnu\gnuwin32>du --v
du (GNU coreutils) 5.3.0
Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, Paul Eggert, and Jim 
Meyering.

Peter F. Klammer, P.E. 
Staff Engineer, Design
Denver Product Development 
 
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Westminster, Colorado 80021
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Message #8 received at 6288 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: pklammer <at> hidglobal.com
Cc: 6288 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6288: gnuwin32 du fails at "C:\Program Files"
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 06:42:17 -0600

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On 05/27/2010 06:54 PM, pklammer <at> hidglobal.com wrote:
> On XP SP3, 12GB drive, du quits at (i.e., just before) my directory 
> "C:\Program Files\".

In general, questions about tools ported to windows are better directed
to the place where you got the tools, rather than upstream, since
windows includes its own set of porting pitfalls.

> 
> C:\Program Files\gnu\gnuwin32>du --v
> du (GNU coreutils) 5.3.0

That's quite old.  Perhaps you would be interested in trying cygwin,
where coreutils 8.5 has been ported.  I have not had any problems using
the cygwin port of coreutils in running things like du.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: 6288 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6288: gnuwin32 du fails at "C:\Program Files"
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 22:49:37 -0600

tags 6288 moreinfo
close 6288
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 2010-05-28 6:42 a.m., Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/27/2010 06:54 PM, pklammer <at> hidglobal.com wrote:
>> On XP SP3, 12GB drive, du quits at (i.e., just before) my directory
>> "C:\Program Files\".
> 
> In general, questions about tools ported to windows are better directed
> to the place where you got the tools, rather than upstream, since
> windows includes its own set of porting pitfalls.
> 
>>
>> C:\Program Files\gnu\gnuwin32>du --v
>> du (GNU coreutils) 5.3.0
> 
> That's quite old.  Perhaps you would be interested in trying cygwin,
> where coreutils 8.5 has been ported.  I have not had any problems using
> the cygwin port of coreutils in running things like du.
> 

With no further comments in 8 years,
I'm closing this bug.

-assaf

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