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Re: du counting files in hard-linked directories twice


From: Matthew Woehlke
Subject: Re: du counting files in hard-linked directories twice
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:09:14 -0500
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Michael Schwarz wrote:
The Problem I see as a bug is that, in some circumstances, du is counting the same files multiple times when they appear inside of hard-linked directories.

Hard-linked *directories*? I wasn't aware those were allowed... (If I read 'man 3 link' right, they aren't allowed on Linux.)

...Aside, of course, from 'd' and all 'd/*/..' being the same.

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