Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 11:57:24 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, "Scott D. Yelich" <scott@scottyelich.com>, Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who broke "ls" in FreeBSD? and why? Message-ID: <200010241757.LAA17136@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:11:36 CDT." <20001024081136.K1604@puck.firepipe.net> References: <20001024081136.K1604@puck.firepipe.net> <scott@scottyelich.com> <12367.972372237@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In message <20001024081136.K1604@puck.firepipe.net> Will Andrews writes: : [ redirected to -hackers ] : : On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 12:23:57AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: : > What's wrong with -a? And what the heck does this have to do with : > mobile computing? : : -a doesn't disable -A, it adds to it (also shows . and ..). I think : this guy's looking for an option to disable this flag.. no idea why. : One could simply invoke `ls' as a normal user (say, `nobody') if they so : desired. Yes. Last night I misunderstood what he was saying. For normal users, ls -a lists all files, not counting . and .., but for root it does list all files. ls -A lists all files for normal users, but omits . and .. for root. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200010241757.LAA17136>