From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2005-09-07T12:56:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Help me clean up this method

Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Daniel Berger wrote:
>
> > Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >> just thought i'd point out that every solution posted thus far fails in a
> >> variety of ways when links are considered - in the best cases linked files
> >> are counted twice or linked dirs are not checked, in the worst case
> >> infinite loops occur.
> >
> > For a good summary of the problems with calculating the size of a directory
> > (on Windows) see
> > http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/12/28/336219.aspx.
>
> indeed.
>
> we've got a script here (dirsum) that does essentially all the things outlined
> - especially checking compressed files - for monitoring data volumes.  the
> problem is much trickier that one would assume.

By all means, please share.  I'd be happy to add a Dir.size method to
win32-dir. :)

Regards,

Dan