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Date:      Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:49:31 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/du du.1 du.c
Message-ID:  <20080226094931.GT83599@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200802251906.m1PJ6hwB005451@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200802251906.m1PJ6hwB005451@repoman.freebsd.org>

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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.

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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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