Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:04:21 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "Scott D. Yelich" <scott@scottyelich.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Who broke "ls" in FreeBSD? and why? Message-ID: <XFMail.001024150421.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010232253210.23207-100000@hackme.spy.org>
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On 24-Oct-00 Scott D. Yelich wrote: > 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. It's odd but hardly terrible. I don't think it's smart either but you could just ask nicely.. > 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? Ahh, of course, GNU is the source for all standards information.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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