RE: [ITP] ncdu 1.1

["DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest@firsthorizon.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:  On Behalf Of Christian Franke
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 12:59 AM
> To: 
> Subject: Re: [ITP] ncdu 1.1
> 
> DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> > ...
> > Incidentally, I downloaded the source from the
> > http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/ and it compiled flawlessly under Cygwin.
> >
> > I ran it and had it start at the root folder, "/".
> >
> > I anticipated it taking a very long time to finish, but not hours.  I
> > let it run for around four hours during which my processor stayed > 90%
> > usage, even with On-access virus scanning disabled.
> >
> > During which time is dug through all of my mapped network drives, my
> > entire local hard drive, and the Windows registry via /proc/registry.
> >
> >   
> 
> Confirmed.
> Actually ncdu does not handle the special case "/" and calls e.g. 
> lstat("//bin",.).
> This is OK on Linux & friends, but specifies an UNC path on Cygwin.
> (I don't know whether POSIX specifies the behaviour on duplicate slashes).
> ncdu also does not handle the error returned by lstat() in this case.
> 
> I will provide a fixed package and send the patch upstream.
> 
> > It bombed out sometime during the scan of /proc/registry, but I can't be
> > sure exactly where.  The display was still there, but it had dropped to
> > a command-line underneath.  The path was cut off due to the size of the
> > display box.
> >
> >   
> 
> Could not reproduce this.
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> Christian

I did 'ncdu /proc/registry' and about two hours later, I found it like this, with my bash prompt underneath.
I didn't cut / paste the box because it would just turn into a bunch of Ä and such.
I did recreate it with - and | just to give you an idea of what it looked like.

---Calculating...-------------------------------------------
|                                                          | 
| Total files: 467122   dirs: 222594   size:   0.0 B       |
| Current dir: /proc/registry/HKE.../0/0/0/0/8/4/0/0/0/0/4 |
|                                                          |
| Warning: could not open /proc/registr...curity/templates |
|  some directory sizes may not be correct                 |
|                                                          |
|  Calc                                    Press q to quitHangup
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-Jason

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