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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2013-12-04 00:50:10 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2013-12-04 13:17:17 +0000
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downloadcoreutils-2091f44993c4d0ad16cbe272c247bb452ae74216.tar.xz
df: handle bind mounts when processing device nodes
* src/df.c (get_disk): Use the same heuristic used in get_point() to select the shortest file system mount point, in an attempt to show the base mounted file system. * NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
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df displayed the symlink's device rather than that for the device node.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
+ df now processes disk device nodes correctly in the presence of bind mounts.
+ Now df shows the base mounted file system rather than the last one mounted.
+ [This bug was present in "the beginning".]
+
install now removes the target file if the strip program failed for any
reason. Before, that file was left behind, sometimes even with wrong
permissions.