cvs commit: src/usr.bin/du du.1 du.c

[Peter Jeremy]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 07:06:43PM +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>  Implement from scratch a -l option for du(1), to match the same option
>  of the GNU utility.  The default behavior of our original `du' is to
>  count hardlinked files only once for each invocation of the utility.
>  With the new -l option they count towards the final size every time
>  they are found.

The third possible option is to amortize the size of hardlinked files
across all their occurrences by adding size/nlinks each time they are
found.  IMHO, this results in the least "surprises" in the result.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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