[Gllug] Odd (but apparently correct) behaviour from du

[Nix]

On 17 Jul 2008, John Winters said:
> Note that I'm not saying that du's behaviour is wrong - just it's not
> obvious that it has to behave in this way *when invoked on separately
> named directories*.

That is bizarre and feels like a bug to me too. I'd ask on the coreutils
list if I were you, and see what Jim Meyering says about this. (POSIX
doesn't define the behaviour of du(1) with respect to files with
i_nlink > 1 at all that I can see.)
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