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| author | Yorhel <git@yorhel.nl> | 2012-11-22 13:33:32 +0100 |
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| committer | Yorhel <git@yorhel.nl> | 2012-11-22 13:33:32 +0100 |
| commit | ad84603bee29574d64ada57cd97d8e2423577b96 (patch) | |
| tree | 2e5a997c0b0134124791d5cf77ad22fc5df34580 /doc | |
| parent | 2bc1b3e4793d7d7d2ca7c275a51bb67d0d2a6035 (diff) | |
Clip directory sizes to fit in a signed 64bit integer
This mostly avoids the issue of getting negative sizes. It's still
possible to get a negative size after refresh or deletion, I'll get to
that in a bit.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ncdu.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ncdu.pod b/doc/ncdu.pod index ef2d4b0..3d8df5b 100644 --- a/doc/ncdu.pod +++ b/doc/ncdu.pod @@ -276,6 +276,10 @@ links, and will thus be scanned and counted multiple times. Some minor glitches may appear when displaying filenames that contain multibyte or multicolumn characters. +All sizes are internally represented as a signed 64bit integer. If you have a +directory larger than 8 EiB minus one byte, ncdu will clip its size to 8 EiB +minus one byte. + Please report any other bugs you may find at the bug tracker, which can be found on the web site at http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu |