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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:53:18 +0100
From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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Subject: Re: [BUG][2.4] /proc/kcore is a random generator ?
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:50:27AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
 
> Well with 'older' utilities on 2.4.24, I always get '0' with `du`!

that's what I've always been used to, too. I noticed it first because a
classical "du -sc /" was 500 MB bigger than it ought to be.

> Probably moon-phase.

I didn't think about this, but you may be right :-)

Cheers,
Willy