From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 13 15:17:10 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F0A3477E for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2015 15:17:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ian@freebsd.org) Received: from pmta2.delivery4.ore.mailhop.org (pmta2.delivery4.ore.mailhop.org [54.200.247.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE250F57 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2015 15:17:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ian@freebsd.org) Received: from ilsoft.org (unknown [73.34.117.227]) by outbound1.ore.mailhop.org (Halon Mail Gateway) with ESMTPSA; Sat, 13 Jun 2015 15:17:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from revolution.hippie.lan (revolution.hippie.lan [172.22.42.240]) by ilsoft.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t5DFH2lg011420; Sat, 13 Jun 2015 09:17:02 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ian@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <1434208622.1415.57.camel@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r284198 - head/bin/ls From: Ian Lepore To: Steve Kargl Cc: Alexander Kabaev , Marcel Moolenaar , src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 09:17:02 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20150613024916.GA98218@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <201506100127.t5A1RdX6051959@svn.freebsd.org> <20150612204309.11dd3391@kan> <20150613024916.GA98218@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.10 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 15:17:11 -0000 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 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 > > > Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc. > > > > > > > > > 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