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Article #107Suggestions for fileutils
From: Michael I Bushnell
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 06:28
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 06:28
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From: jgp@moscom.com (Jim Prescott) Date: 6 Apr 92 20:02:16 GMT References: <9204022129.AA07149@prism.CS.ORST.EDU> Note that -f doesn't work as documented on Suns anymore. You can no longer force something to be treated as a directory; getdents(2) cannot be coerced into treating a file as a directory. This will be true in GNU as well, so it is fairly important to fix the documentation. The -f option is still useful for listing files in directory order (unsorted) and since it only works on true directories there is no longer any reason to turn off the -l, -s or -r flags (or any of the others that -f needed to turn off before that didn't make it into the man page). Further, this is an annoying misfeature. I suggest that -f be redesignated "print in directory order", in other words, "don't sort", and that it should only interact with the flags that force sorting. -mib
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Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!gnu.ai.mit.edu!mib From: mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) Subject: Suggestions for fileutils Message-ID: <9204071428.AA16183@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet References: <3449@moscom.UUCP> Distribution: gnu Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 06:28:12 GMT Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu Lines: 23