On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 05:41:01PM +0100, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote:
> >
> > See /lib/namespace.
>
> Yes, but reading "Getting Dot-Dot right" by Rob Pike, I thought that the
> solution was to have, underneath, one uniq pathname for a file. Date(1)
> can format UTC; whatever the user presentation, underneath there is only
> the UTC. Namespace is a way to manage the nicknames, or the presentation
> of data; to manage different views of the "real" thing, but underneath
> there is an uniq pathname; a pathname finally resolved to something
> (no infinite recursion).
Answering to myself: du(1) -s make the sum of each entry it has printed.
If the entries are repeated (because of multiple binds), it appears in
the sum.
So du(1) does what it says; the sum.
I never thought that perhaps, under Unices, du(1) with hard links will
produce the same misleading result...
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