From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Oct 23 22:51:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CA0F37B479 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:51:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9O5pOn84850; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 23:51:25 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id XAA13195; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 23:51:24 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200010240551.XAA13195@harmony.village.org> To: "Scott D. Yelich" Subject: Re: Who broke "ls" in FreeBSD? and why? Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:59:21 MDT." References: Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 23:51:24 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message "Scott D. Yelich" writes: : 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? It has done that for a long, long, long time. Like 4.2 BSD iirc from my VAX days. : This doesn't appear to be the default forGNU ls, so who "broke" this? gnu-ls doesn't define a standard. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message