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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject: Re: minor change to ls -l 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 30 Dec 1995 14:27:20 +0100."
             <199512301327.OAA00348@uriah.heep.sax.de> 
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 16:09:35 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> What do people think about the following change to the behaviour of
> ls -l?

I think it would be nice, but it would probably break something...

what criteria will you use for %x ?   
(minor > 0xff) ?

> 
> Currently:
> 
> j@uriah 54% ls -l /dev/*ctl
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   24, 128 Feb 10  1995 /dev/pcaudioctl
> crw-------  1 root  wheel   70, 536870912 Aug 19 14:44 /dev/rod0.ctl
> crw-------  1 root  wheel   13, 536870912 Jun 10  1995 /dev/rsd0.ctl
> crw-------  1 root  wheel   13, 536870920 Jun 10  1995 /dev/rsd1.ctl
> crw-------  1 root  wheel   13, 536870928 Jun 15  1995 /dev/rsd2.ctl
> crw-------  1 root  wheel   13, 536870936 Aug 15 23:50 /dev/rsd3.ctl
> 
> Intended:
> 
> j@uriah 55% ./ls -l /dev/*ctl
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   24, 128 Feb 10  1995 /dev/pcaudioctl
> crw-------  1 root  wheel   70, 0x20000000 Aug 19 14:44 /dev/rod0.ctl
> crw-------  1 root  wheel   13, 0x20000000 Jun 10  1995 /dev/rsd0.ctl
> crw-------  1 root  wheel   13, 0x20000008 Jun 10  1995 /dev/rsd1.ctl
> crw-------  1 root  wheel   13, 0x20000010 Jun 15  1995 /dev/rsd2.ctl
> crw-------  1 root  wheel   13, 0x20000018 Aug 15 23:50 /dev/rsd3.ctl
> 
> 
> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

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