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Subject: Re: svn commit: r284198 - head/bin/ls
From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 19:49 -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 08:43:09PM -0400, Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 01:27:39 +0000 (UTC)
> > Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Author: marcel
> > > Date: Wed Jun 10 01:27:38 2015
> > > New Revision: 284198
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/284198
> > > 
> > > Log:
> > >   Convert ls(1) to use libxo(3).
> > >   
> > >   Obtained from:	Phil Shafer <phil@juniper.net>
> > >   Sponsored by:	Juniper Networks, Inc.
> > > 
> > <SKIP>
> > 
> > This broke all code that pipes output of the ls command to pipeline,
> > such as 'ls | wc -l'. ls never exits and never output anything. Is
> > there any purpose to libxo other than breaking stuff, which it achieves
> > so splendidly?
> > 
> 
> -1 for libxo, which also makes code almost unreadable.
> 

s/unreadable/unmaintainable/

If you would have told me a year ago that you had a simple scheme that
could make 30 years of experience maintaining code for unix-like systems
completely worthless I would have been skeptical, but it seems we're
well on our way.

-- Ian