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Re: ls -i inefficiency
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Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: ls -i inefficiency |
Date: |
Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:43:48 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Eric Blake) writes:
> What does Solaris 10 do?
Good point. My Solaris 10 host is down right now, but Solaris 9 does
not complain:
54-pete $ ls -l foo
lrwxrwxrwx 1 eggert eggert 7 Feb 26 15:22 foo -> nowhere
55-pete $ /bin/ls -L
eggert.kshh foo savsmtptemp
56-pete $ /usr/xpg4/bin/ls -L
eggert.kshh foo savsmtptemp
OpenBSD 3.4 ls is similar. So I guess your fix has _removed_ an
incompatibility rather than added one. Good show!
> I just reread the POSIX wording
So did I. It is a bit muddy. I think we can do whatever we want
here, and I don't see a strong reason to do it one way or the other so
I prefer being compatible with the other guys.
I'd write up a NEWS item but I'm not sure when the GNU ls behavior
changed.