I unexepectedly discovered some of my .ogg files were showing up with the wrong color. I thought my filesystem was broken, or some attributes had been set on the files, or that they were executable, or something.
Eventually I realized that they were multiply hardlinked. This is not something I ever want colorized with ls. And I certainly do not want it to ever "win" over any other color settings which are meaningful to me. I created my color settings in the year 1995 and they have worked since until now. I checked the dir_colors manpage, which made no mention of hard links. I checked the ls manpage which made no mention of hardlinks. I checked the coreutils project page, which did not discuss the issue. Eventually I found mention of the issue in the NEWS for the source release. It showed a recipe for special manipulation of hte variable post-invocation. Well this isn't very good, so I tried adding it to my ~/.dir_colors file, but dir_colors doesn't understand the 'hl' value. This isn't very satisfying. I suggest: - any parameter in DIR_COLORS should be understood by dir_colors - any parameter in DIR_COLORS should be documented in the dir_colors manpage - hard links should not "win" over other settings, since this is not a situation that is cause for concern or in other ways to be "alerted" over the configured meanings for files. - the gnu info documentation should describe the ~/.dir_colors file format I think the first three of of these conditions were satisfied prior to the patch, incidentally. -josh _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
