Re: MiNT-Library: Bugs

[cherborth@semprini.waterloo-rdp.on.ca (Chris Herborth)]

In <94Nov21.130652mesz.209155-1@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>, you write:
>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!
>
>Then why is there an option --dereference in the GNU-ls?

Is it an option or the default behaviour?

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