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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