Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes: > > Thanks, but I'd like to retain the default (a deliberate "feature" > that ls -l --color does not stat the referent of each symlink it encounters. > > From reading the comments, you can guess that this behavior change was > deliberate. Sorry I didn't make it clearer. Dereferencing symlinks > just to color them is highly undesirable (at least in some environments), > hence the change so that ls --color no longer does that by default. > The marginal benefit of coloring the RHS was outweighed by the potential > negative impact of the additional stat calls.
Fair enough; but can we at least get it mentioned in NEWS that this was a deliberate change? > > I think we'll need some new LS_COLORS-specified option to > reenable coloring of the symlink referent in a long listing. > And I agree with you that this can wait until after 6.11 to figure out the best approach for such an option. -- Eric Blake _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
