Re: MiNT-Library: Bugs

[Stephan Haslbeck <haslbecs@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>]

Frank Bartels wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I just had a look at the MiNT-Library Bugs file and I have some
> suggestions:
> 
(...)
>
> > 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!
> 
Then why is there an option --dereference in the GNU-ls?

Stephan 

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