Re: du always stats all mount points now?

[adavies42]

On Sep 18, 2015, at 3:21 AM, Bernhard Voelker <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 09/18/2015 05:30 AM, adavies42 wrote:
> 
>> somewhere between 8.12 and 8.20, du seems to have acquired the behavior of 
>> stat'ing all mountpoints during its startup
>> 
>> why does it do this? it seems to have no connection to what's being du'd, 
>> and if stat blocks on one of the mountpoints (e.g. in some FUSE failure 
>> scenarios), it means the entire du run blocks, even if the broken mount has 
>> no connection to what i'm actually trying to do
>> 
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> Indeed, the stat()ing of all mount points can easily be avoided
> by doing it only when needed, i.e., when FTS has detected a
> directory cycle (FTS_DC).  The attached does this.
> 
> Would you mind giving us your name so that I can mention it
> as "Reported by: ..."?

Thanks for the quick fix. You can credit me as "Aaron Davies".
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Aaron Davies
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