Subject: Re: bug#6288: gnuwin32 du fails at "C:\Program Files"

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
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, [email-masked] 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