From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] du vs. ls: duplication or not?
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:43:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120116174318.GA382@polynum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F144CBD.2000208@gmail.com>
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.
--
Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
http://www.kergis.com/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-16 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-14 8:01 tlaronde
2012-01-14 9:20 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-01-15 16:18 ` tlaronde
2012-01-15 21:17 ` erik quanstrom
2012-01-16 11:46 ` tlaronde
2012-01-16 16:13 ` Joel C. Salomon
2012-01-16 17:43 ` tlaronde [this message]
2012-01-16 18:06 ` erik quanstrom
2012-01-14 9:45 ` David du Colombier
2012-01-14 13:23 ` erik quanstrom
2012-01-16 7:39 arnold
2012-01-16 11:55 ` tlaronde
2012-01-16 13:21 ` erik quanstrom
2012-01-16 13:24 ` erik quanstrom
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