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| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/walk/windows.rs | 14 |
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@@ -119,17 +119,10 @@ cargo install diskus ## Windows caveats - Since even the Windows-internal tools such as (but not limited to) - - Powershell, - - Explorer, - - dir, - - are not respecting hardlinks or junction points when determining the - size of a directory, it has been decided that diskus will count - any such entries multiple times. too. See - https://github.com/sharkdp/diskus/issues/32#issuecomment-532817905 for - an example of this behaviour. - +Windows-internal tools such as Powershell, Explorer or `dir` are not respecting hardlinks or +junction points when determining the size of a directory. `diskus` does the same and counts +such entries multiple times (on Unix systems, multiple hardlinks to a single file are counted +just once). ## License diff --git a/src/walk/windows.rs b/src/walk/windows.rs index 8a3bcca..43cdff2 100644 --- a/src/walk/windows.rs +++ b/src/walk/windows.rs @@ -1,13 +1,9 @@ pub fn generate_unique_id(_metadata: &std::fs::Metadata) -> Option<super::UniqueID> { - // Since even the Windows-internal tools such as (but not limited to) - // - Powershell, - // - Explorer, - // - dir, - // are not respecting hardlinks or junction points when determining the - // size of a directory [1], it has been decided that diskus will count - // any such entries multiple times. too. + // Windows-internal tools such as Powershell, Explorer or `dir` are not respecting hardlinks + // or junction points when determining the size of a directory. `diskus` does the same and + // counts such entries multiple times (on Unix systems, multiple hardlinks to a single file are + // counted just once). // - // Footnotes: - // [1] https://github.com/sharkdp/diskus/issues/32#issuecomment-532817905 + // See: https://github.com/sharkdp/diskus/issues/32 None } |