-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Eggert on 2/6/2006 12:11 AM: > > Solaris 10 "ls" (both /bin/ls and /usr/xpg4/bin/ls) appends the slash. > > OpenBSD 3.4 /bin/ls is similar to Solaris 10. > > So, if we change this, we'll introduce an incompatibility with > widespread existing practice. I'm a bit inclined to let sleeping dogs > lie, unless perhaps we're actually on a system where / and // are > different directories.
Sounds fine to me. No one has yet complained on cygwin that ls -dF turns / into // and // into ///, so being consistent by always appending the slash seems reasonable for now (especially since with --color, the appended slash is a different color than the filename). I still have an outstanding patch for basename/dirname treatment of //, and now that my copyright papers are final, I should probably resubmit it for inclusion in 6.x. That patch provides the ability to detect if // is distinct at configure time (but in cross-compiles, must assume that // is distinct); if anyone ever wants to avoid turning / into // we will then already have the macro for deciding when to do the extra check. But for now, I will not be changing ls's behavior with / or //, even when appending the trailing slash changes the filename printed. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD51oj84KuGfSFAYARAvoWAKC+dBKEKSTf1jJ3AYBYS0FOmzm6gQCeNzfr qeixVZwuCmm7KII7HyU+mmA= =c3rL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
