Bob Proulx wrote: > This matches what I expect to see.
Ah, this is what I wanted to know. > What do you expect to see here? The information "demo is a link to a directory", but obviously my way of thinking and POSIX's way are different things ;-) > You have symbolically linked demo to your /home/markus. Then you > asked ls to list it in long format but not to recurse down. Yes. > You added a trailing slash Yes. > which says to resolve the symlink to destination first. Oh! really? So why ain't the destination showed by its name in the output? Even if it seeems to be POSIX-conformant, I have to say: It is a little bit strange for the unaware (and who isn't even after long years on that system with a few thousand evolving exectutables in /usr/bin). > The destination of demo is /home/markus. So it listed that. No. it did not mention "/home/markus" at all. This is what I zing. # ll -d demo/ drwxr-xr-x 45 markus users 4153 Mar 12 12:00 demo/ For me the name "demo" is a representation of a symbolic link. Thinking that "demo/" is something completely different is a _decision_ taken by special people who live in a special world: UNIX. Mixing attributes from the destination with the name of the link in the output is worth a rethink. I would have taken an other decision, but who cares ... I can live with that. <KIDDING> In MARKUSIX it would have been forbidden. Maybe it is time to fork another UNIX derivate and to undermine POSIX again (snickle) ... </KIDDING> > > Is there any good reason to keep that behaviour? > > Keep what behavior? The unexpected behaviour ;-) > You never said what you expected to see I never expected that You (and POSIX) find the as-is-behaviour expectable. Now I learned it is the other way round: You never expected me not to expect the behaviour as it is. Therefore I cannot expect others to understand my expectations. This is what mailing lists are good for: To get rid of wrong expectations. > and us folks reading the bug list can't read your mind, Obviously my mind is not POSIXLY_CORRECT. What a pity. > you have to come right out and say it. "it". Thank You for teaching me POSIX. A decision is a decision. I respect it. I do not want to change it, unless there is no war on earth anymore. But I find it at least improvable and therefore my comments. If You disagree: peace to You anyway. Markus _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
