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Re: du missing files on vfat
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Eric Blake |
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Re: du missing files on vfat |
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Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:05:42 -0700 |
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According to Wolfram Kresse on 12/11/2007 3:45 PM:
> 6.9.90 is working.
> Interestingly, even the Ubuntu development version seems to still use 5.97.
> Is there a reason not to switch to 6.x?
Nothing other than momentum - distros tend to drag their feet upgrading to
the latest and greatest because it carries the risk of encountering
regressions from a known (albeit possibly buggy) baseline.
> Were other core utils affected by this problem, or was "du" the only one?
All of the coreutils that perform directory recursion - ls, du, rm, chmod,
..., because they all share the same recursion code.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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