On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@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