Friday, July 22, 2005

Raymond Chen: Computing the size of a directory is more than just adding file sizes

One might think that computing the size of a directory would be a simple matter of adding up the sizes of all the files in it.

Oh if it were only that simple.

There are many things that make computing the size of a directory difficult, some of which even throw into doubt the even existence of the concept "size of a directory".

Itt van a listaja.