tag 15828 notabug close 15828 stop On 11/07/2013 06:54 PM, Aharon Robbins wrote: > Hello. > > There is a difference between the Solaris ls and ls on GNU/Linux > and many other systems. In particular, ls -f turns off -l (and other > options, see below). > > This breaks a test I have in the gawk test suite. > > The citation from POSIX: > >>> The readdir test fails because the -f option to ls turns off -l. I think >>> the Solaris ls is broken. >> >> This is perfectly POSIX-compliant behavior. See >> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/ls.html >> >> -f [XSI] Force each argument to be interpreted as a directory and list the >> name found in each slot. This option shall turn off -l, -t, -s, and -r, >> and >> shall turn on -a; the order is the order in which entries appear in the >> directory. >
The newest POSIX says "may turn off" -l: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ls.html > And even if I set POSIXLY_CORRECT GNU/Linux ls doesn't turn off -l. > > $ ls --version > ls (GNU coreutils) 8.13 > > I will probably rewrite my test (sigh). > > In the meantime, comments? FreeBSD and GNU ls are in sync and don't turn off -l with -f solaris is compliant but divergent here. I don't see a need for -f to ignore any -l, hence I'm closing this issue for now. thanks, Pádraig.
