[Wlug] inconsistent results with du and multiple arguments

[Brett Russ]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:

> this has come up on the gnu coreutils list in the past iirc (so try
> searching
> their mail archives).  i think it was one part bug and one part unexpected
> for the user.  make sure you're using coreutils-6.11.  once you have that,
> i
> think the way symlinks are counted may not be as you expect.
>

Thanks Mike, looks like it is related to the -x argument:
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-gnulib@gnu.org/msg04655.html

I've confirmed it's fixed in coreutils-6.9-43, but haven't yet checked on my
home machine where I saw the problem.  Pretty sure it's the same thing
though.

Chuck,
If it were rounding error I should still be able to make direct comparisons
between the results, as long as they all used the -m argument.

Thanks,
BR
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