bug#79096: du: -x doesn't detect sshfs file system

Grisha Levit <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
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On Fri, Jul 25, 2025, 12:02 Stan Marsh <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I used the following command to check disk usage in ~:
>
>  $ du -sxc ~/*
>
> Unfortunately, this hung when it hit the directory ~/sshfs_mount, which is
> sshfs
> mounted to my home dir on some other system.
>

When the glob is expanded, $HOME/sshfs_mount ends up being one of the args
to `du' so it seems not surprising that the directory is processed.

>
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