Re: `du` check for directory loop avoidance

[Pádraig Brady]

On 12/18/2013 04:46 PM, Jeff Kirkpatrick wrote:
> A Red Hat customer has registered a concern over the non-zero exit code that 
> results when du traverses a directory loop, i.e. a chrooted environment.
> 
> The recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 errata 
> http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.htmlincludes a change to the 
> warning message received (FROM "WARNING: Circular directory structure. This 
> almost certainly means that you have a corrupted file system." TO " du: mount 
> point `/var/named/chroot/var/named' already traversed") however there is 
> still a non-zero exit code.

I need to look into this some more,
but we should at least reword the warning to something more generic

thanks,
Pádraig.