Thank you, Ingo!
On Fri, 15 Aug 2025 20:44:11 +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> It might sound as if i were bashing you, but that's not my intention.
> You actually understood significantly more than the other posters
> in this thread and formulated a potentially useful question from
> your partial understanding - even though the answer is no,
> documenting these details is undesirable. New users don't need
> it, and more experienced users shouldn't rely on it, either.
That was wonderfully polite, patient, and detailed, and I probably
deserve the parts where I got scolded for too-casual summaries and
snarky descriptions. :-)
And yes, it's clearly misleading to describe the fallback to
effectively -l as a default, too much information (in the sense of
obscuring more important things) to describe the process that leads to
outputting sanitized file content, and not a corner case worth further
description (imo, which has already been demonstrated to be
underinformed, but I'm persuaded by your description).
So thank you for the lesson, it was interesting and useful. :-)
Amy!
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