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bug#61884: add an option to du that allows to control which file types a


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#61884: add an option to du that allows to control which file types are counted
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2023 14:58:25 -0800
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What's the motivation here? Does this have something to do with reproducible builds?

One possibility is for --apparent-size to always count 0 for directories, since 'read' never returns a positive number on directories. That is, we reinterpret --apparent-size to mean "bytes that could be read" rather than "what st_size says".





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