On 09/14/12 10:57, Andrey N. Oktyabrski wrote:
I think this 35-years old mistake must be corrected: "-A" option
> must be off by default for all users.
Clearly - this is not a "mistake" - since it was deliberately added and then deliberately merged into 4.2BSD. I think the 'mistake', is deciding to willy-nilly change something that has been in place for 35 years because someone expects something that is not linux to be linux and decides to complain about it instead of reading/understanding/etc [1]. Again - noone is saying that we should change the 'inconsistency' in 'if in a tty, use ls -1 by default' logic, or various traditional BSD ps flags, such as 'ps T', 'ps j', our conflict in 'ps e' w/r/t POSIX, etc. ... or maybe they now will since I have mentioned these things that they were likely unaware of prior to my mentioning it. doh! Cheers, - Chris [1] http://tomayko.com/writings/that-dilbert-cartoon
