From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 30 10:18:59 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA28260 for current-outgoing; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 10:18:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA28253 for ; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 10:18:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA24928 for ; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 19:18:51 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA06809 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 19:18:51 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id SAA01671 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 18:43:10 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512301743.SAA01671@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: minor change to ls -l To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 18:43:09 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <956.820336175@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Dec 30, 95 04:09:35 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)