RHEL 5 du (coreutils-5.97) -D flag handling bug causes -x to be ignored
Issue
On a RHEL 5.8 system(appears to apply to all 5.x) du version 5.97, from coreutils-5.97-34.el5_8.1, ignores the '-x' (--one-file-system) flag if the '-D' (--dereference-args) flag is specified after it on the command-line.
This bug appears to be due to incorrect bitfield handling in the du argument parsing and identified in 2006:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367691
Can Redhat incorporate this patch? My current workaround is to specify '-x' last.
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5.8
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