Jim Meyering wrote: > Right. The change that made ls -1U more efficient was after 6.12 > [v6.12-113-g8d974b0]: > > commit 8d974b00fbbc2025de63e1e6d54827648fefa1c4 > Author: Kamil Dudka <kdu...@redhat.com> > Date: Wed Jul 30 14:31:50 2008 +0200 > > ls -U1 now uses constant memory > > When printing one name per line and not sorting, ls now uses > constant memory per directory, no matter how many files are in > the directory. > * ls.c (print_dir): Print each file name immediately, when possible. > * NEWS: Mention the improvement.
Hmm... Traditionally hasn't output to a pipe been the same as -1? So it seems to me that 'ls -U | cat' should be the same as 'ls -1U | cat', shouldn't it? This makes me wonder why the -1 is needed for this behavior. It would seem that output to a pipe should be enough. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
