Jim Meyering wrote:
Bert Wesarg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
With the --group-directories-first option, ls shows directories on top of all
non directory entries, but IMHO symlinks to directories should be handle as
directories as well.
Thanks for the patch, but a change in behavior like that
requires some serious justification.
I read the thread in the mail archive. Eric Blake questioned the symlink
behavior in the first reply (still in the patch tracker):
Your patch does not take into account what behavior should be used
with symlinks to dirs - are they grouped with directories, or with
files, or does it depend on other options (such as -L)?
And indeed a -L with --group-directories-first does sort symlinks to
directories like directories. But they don't look like symlinks anymore.
Anyway, this fact was not really discussed, Francesco decided that symlinks to
directories are non-directories and no one objected.
Currently there is no test for this option, even Francesco has posted one which
also consider symlinks, and the documentation for this options doesn't mention
symlinks too. So, IMHO there is no change in documented behavior with this
patch.
Therefor I change this to an RFC, to further discuss this question.
Regards
Bert
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