[Wlug] inconsistent results with du and multiple arguments

[Chuck Anderson]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 06:42:18AM -0400, Brett Russ wrote:
> Can anyone explain why du (which advertises the ability to evaluate N
> file/dir arguments) seems to only be accurate for the first provided
> argument?  See the following:
> 
> brett at spider:/> sudo du -smxc tmp
> 60      tmp
> 60      total
> brett at spider:/> sudo du -smxc tmp bin
> 60      tmp
> 1       bin
> 60      total

Try without the -m argument.  You may be seeing round off error.