Phillip Susi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> From what I've read, POSIX does not specify this. >> If you know of wording that is more precise, please post a quote. > > That was my point.... the standard does not specify that this behavior > is an error, and since every unix system since the dawn of time has > behaved this way, it is NOT an error as you claim. > >> As far as I've heard, only one application would be affected >> adversely by this change (extra stat calls would hurt performance), >> and that application, "magicmirror" is not widely used -- since I >> found no reference to it in the first few pages of search results. > > EVERY application that invokes ls -i is effected.
Please name one. >> If you know of other applications that run "ls -i" and depend on >> the post-coreutils-6.0 behavior of not stat'ing some files, >> please let me know. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
