Re: MiNT-Library: Bugs

[benni@phil15.uni-sb.de (Benjamin Lorenz)]

> >Frank Bartels wrote:
> >> > stat.c: +nox
> >> >   In lstat(), maybe make filenames with trailing slash follow symlinks?
> >> >   sometimes it would be nice if i could do `ls -l /usr/' and get whats 
> >> >   in there, not just the link...
> >> >   [This sounds like a bad idea to me.  Sounds like a kludge in ls is
> >> >   what's needed here, if anything. -entropy]
> >> 
> >> No! No! No! `ls -l /usr/' *has* to follow the link! And it does on my
> >> SunOS 4 and FreeBSD machine. *Please* change this behaviour!

SunOS 4.1.3_U1:

benni@pfsparc02[p0] ~% ls baba
decode.2452     gopheBAAa03374  magi            sh15740         snd.3398
est.3398        m-prts-achim    mbox.benni      sh15741
benni@pfsparc02[p0] ~% ls -l baba
lrwxrwxrwx  1 benni           4 Nov 22 16:17 baba -> /tmp
benni@pfsparc02[p0] ~% ls -l baba/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 benni           4 Nov 22 16:17 baba/ -> /tmp
benni@pfsparc02[p0] ~%

So, it *doesn't* follow the link... 
To follow the link, you must use the '-L' option: (from the manpage)

     -L   If argument is a symbolic link, list the file or direc-
          tory the link references rather than the link itself.

Benni
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