GNU bug report logs - #41664
du give file not accessible

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From: Sumit Gupta <sumitg1011 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: du give file not accessible
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 15:12:08 +0530

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Hey Team,

I have encountered this issue that while running the du command I get the
error like "file not present".

This generally happens because the du command and deletion operation are
working in parallel, meaning when the du operation is triggered at that the
file is present but during the operation the file is deleted so, at the
time of output when the command actually tries to access the file to run
the operation, it fails to locate the file.

Is this expected or shall the command be modified to ignore such files?

Thanks,
Sumit

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Message #8 received at 41664 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Sumit Gupta <sumitg1011 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 41664 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41664: du give file not accessible
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 08:28:56 -0700

On 6/2/20 2:42 AM, Sumit Gupta wrote:
> Is this expected or shall the command be modified to ignore such files?

It does seem reasonable that 'du' should ignore a file when the system call says
ENOENT, since the file isn't there and cannot be consuming disk space.

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