Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:59:21 -0600 (MDT) From: "Scott D. Yelich" <scott@scottyelich.com> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Who broke "ls" in FreeBSD? and why? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010232253210.23207-100000@hackme.spy.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.1.20001023213452.00b84740@ns.live.com>
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Sorry, I can't hold back any longer:
-A List all entries except for `.' and `..'. Always set for the su-
per-user.
Would someone please be so kind as to explain to me the rationale behind
that? Why should a user or script have to be forced to get dot files
just because it's running under uid 0? This seems to really have a
major impact on portable scripts ... they have a chance to be dangerous
under FreeBSD now -- due to this setting.
Why is FreeBSD trying to be like 'blows where it tries to think for the
user? Only, it's much worse than that as there doesn't appear to be a
way to override this setting.
This doesn't appear to be the default forGNU ls, so who "broke" this?
Scott
ps: this isn't "smart" or "cute" ... this is very wrong and very broken.
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