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Date:      Sat, 30 Dec 1995 18:43:09 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: minor change to ls -l
Message-ID:  <199512301743.SAA01671@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <956.820336175@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Dec 30, 95 04:09:35 pm

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As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> > 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) ?

Yup, minor > 0xff.  Since minor numbers were traditionally restricted
to 8 bits anyway, i could not think of things that might be broken
(though there will certainly come something up :).

The decision > 0xff is also the difference to HP/UX, btw.

-- 
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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