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Date:      Sun, 31 Dec 1995 00:30:55 +0100
From:      "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@vector.enet>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: minor change to ls -l 
Message-ID:  <199512302330.AAA25809@vector.enet>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Dec 1995 14:27:20 %2B0100." <199512301327.OAA00348@uriah.heep.sax.de> 

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Hi, Reference:
> What do people think about the following change to the behaviour of
> ls -l?

Inconsistent.

I see how it might be useful, could be atractive,
but if you do it for /dev/rod*
for consistency it should be done for /dev/pcaudio*
& all other /dev
& then there'd be a mass of manuals that refer to the old decimal values,
to be updated by ... who ?

I grant you those large decimals are ugly as hell, maybe we should bite
the inconsistency bullet :-)

> 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. ;-)
> 
Regards, Julian.
--
Julian H. Stacey	jhs@freebsd.org  	http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/



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