On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:13:49AM -0500, Joel C. Salomon wrote:
>
> My guess would be that this discussion illustrates exactly why: ls(1) is
> a gadget that pretty-prints the directory entry. Extending it with '-R'
> would require it to learn about possibly-circular mount points; yuck.
> On the other hand, du(1) has this sort of feature as its raison d'être.
And as my blunders have shown, du(1) tries but does not succeed.
And Disk Usage has only a meaning on a file server for the file locally
served.
But the thread will be going nowhere, since, if I'm convinced that du(1)
is special, I'm not convinced it makes really sense as a "general" tool
in a Plan9 environment.
But let this thread dies. I have some job to do on fdisk.
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