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du: issue with `--files0-from=DIR'

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From: Stefan Vargyas <stvar <at> yahoo.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: du: issue with `--files0-from=DIR'
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 05:28:14 -0800 (PST)

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Dear maintainers,

While building and running coreutils v8.9, I came across the following issue of 'du':

  $ mkdir /tmp/foo
  $ du --files0-from=/tmp/foo
  du: `/tmp/foo': read error: Is a directory
  ...

The program enters an infinite loop -- continuously printing on stderr the error message shown above. Although such usage pattern of 'du' is erroneous, it better not behave this way. Looking into 'du.c', I found that the unending loop is caused by a misconceived 'continue' statement placed after a call to 'error' (the one labeled by 'case AI_ERR_READ'). A plausible fixing patch is immediate: see it enclosed.

Sincerely,

Stefan Vargyas.

[bug-report-du-files0-from-dir.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

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