On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 12:11, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Jan Stocker wrote: > > > Newest world/kernel.... same prob > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # mkdir x > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # cd x > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/x # touch b-first; sleep 60 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/x # touch c-second; sleep 60 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/x # touch a-third > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/x # ls -l -c > > total 0 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 jstocker jstocker 0 5 Oct 11:10 a-third > > -rw-r--r-- 1 jstocker jstocker 0 5 Oct 11:08 b-first > > -rw-r--r-- 1 jstocker jstocker 0 5 Oct 11:09 c-second > > > > > > looks very alphabetic.... > > -c and -u only work when combined with -t. This may be bogus, but it > is no different than in 4.4BSD-Lite2 and it is specified by POSIX > (POSIX.1-200x-draft7: > > 21836 -c Use time of last modification of the file status > information (see <sys/stat.h> in the > 21837 System Interfaces volume of IEEE Std > 1003.1-200x) instead of last modification of > 21838 the file itself for sorting (-t) or writing (-l). > 21864 -u Use time of last access (see <sys/stat.h> in the > System Interfaces volume of > 21865 IEEE Std 1003.1-200x) instead of last > modification of the file for sorting (-t) or > 21866 writing (-l). > > The FreeBSD ls clearly attempts to implement this. The FreeBSD man page > is clearly a fuzzy version of this: > > -c Use time when file status was last changed for sorting or print- > ing. > -u Use time of last access, instead of last modification of the file > for sorting (-t) or printing (-l). > > The FreeBSD man page is missing the critical detail that the status change > time and access times are used _instead_ of the modification time.
and then -t sorts that date... okay.... works fine.... Jan P.S. but the behaviour has changed and i've nowhere read it..... my old box: FreeBSD xxxx 4.7-RC FreeBSD 4.7-RC #0: Thu Sep 19 01:04:45 MEST 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/xxxx i386 has a <working> "ls -c" and does not need "ls -t -c". Jan _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
