Re: du suggestion

Hello.

Tim Newsham wrote:
> Would be nice if DU could print out the cost of the storage rather
> than the number of blocks.  The following code shows an example
> of this (option -$ reads a cost from /usr/share/du-cost and applies
> it before printout out the result).

Haha. Nice idea. I can think of a couple of problems with the patch:

* It doesn't distinguish between IDE and SCSI disks, not to mention 
other forms of storage (e.g.: NAS mounted over NFS). So it ignores the 
real cost of the storage, which isn't just a simple bucks per Meg.

* I think it should read from something like 
/usr/share/<package>/du-cost rather than /usr/share, where <package> is 
coreutils-5.2.1 or similar. (fileutils is now part of coreutils, along 
with sh-utils and textutils).

* It doesn't support internationalisation. Where is its support for the 
Euro, the Yen, the Yuan, Norweigan Kroner, etc.? Perhaps you could use 
xe.com, to do the currency conversion on-the-fly?

> --- du.c.orig	Fri Jun 18 15:51:04 2004
> +++ du.c	Fri Jun 18 16:09:07 2004
[snip]
> @@ -758,6 +775,26 @@
>  	default:
>  	  usage (1);
>  	}
> +    }
> +
> +  /*
> +   * ick!  look at these indents!  placement of braces and
> +   * spaces around parenthesis!  Who wrote this, the french!?
> +   * oh well, I will try to abide by their horrible style rules.
> +   */
[snip]

It's the GNU Coding Style, I suspect.

Incidentally, I'm one-eighth French and I find that comment incredibly 
offensive. The other seven-eighths of me doesn't care, but suggests that 
this comment isn't really appropriate. 8)

Bye, Rich =]

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