bug#81360: Acknowledgement (df -P seems to use wrong format)

Peter Edwards via GNU coreutils Bug Reports <[email protected]> Tue, 7 Jul 2026 09:55:55 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
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Thanks for the update Pádraig

Cheers - Peter

On 7/07/2026 0:56, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 06/07/2026 02:09, Peter Edwards via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
>> Also, -P forces single-line output for filesystems with long mountpoint
>> paths but the default behavior can show the mountpoint on a second line.
>> This makes life hard for some shell scripts.
> 
> Yes -P is required to guarantee that.
> Note however that's a gotcha that's not worth it,
> so we changed to always outputting a single line since 2010:
> https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/99679fff6
> 
> cheers,
> Padraig