[Pkg-mc-devel] [Bug 580221] Re: mc directory sizes not reliable

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

** Changed in: mc
   Importance: Unknown => Undecided

** Changed in: mc
       Status: Confirmed => New

** Changed in: mc
 Remote watch: www.midnight-commander.org/ #7 => None

** Bug watch added: Midnight Commander Bug Tracker #2088
   http://midnight-commander.org/ticket/2088

** Changed in: mc
   Importance: Undecided => Unknown

** Changed in: mc
       Status: New => Unknown

** Changed in: mc
 Remote watch: None => Midnight Commander Bug Tracker #2088

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mc directory sizes not reliable
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/580221
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Status in Midnight Commander - text-mode file manager: Unknown
Status in “mc” package in Ubuntu: In Progress

Bug description:
Binary package hint: mc

In lucid lynx mc reports erroneous directory sizes even between two consecutive invocations.
It also seems to try to cache the results somewhere, but it is not reliable at all.
How to reproduce :  
F9, Command,Show directory sizes.
repeat (eventually sort by sizes in between)
Observe how the directory sizes change from one invocation to another.