I would like a sponsor for 6416837 (see also 6231493). I'm not expecting a great rush based on the response to my other ucb fixes...
In this case I would also appreciate advice from a sponsor as to the approach to take before I get in too deep. I can imagine 3 approaches: 1. Cut-n-paste the missing code from /bin/ls into the /usr/ucb/ls source. Advantages: it's easy, retains current behaviour, and I've done it once already. Disadvantages: it doesn't do anything to make future synchronization easier. 2. Replace /usr/ucb/ls by the /bin/ls source and modify that to get the BSD behaviour back. Advantages: cleaner to do, makes patching future changes easy, we pick up other fixes that have been made to ls for free. Disadvantages: needs more testing to ensure that old behaviour is preserved. 3. Generate /usr/ucb/ls from the /bin/ls source using #ifdef, rather like the xpg4 variant is created. Advantages: only one codebase, future merges are trivial. Disadvantages: as 2, and it involves messing with the /bin/ls source and could be very complex to successfully generate 3 binaries from a single source. -- -Peter Tribble L.I.S., University of Hertfordshire - http://www.herts.ac.uk/ http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
