From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Oct 23 22:34:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F0C437B479 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:34:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA13450; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:04:21 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:04:21 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: "Scott D. Yelich" Subject: RE: Who broke "ls" in FreeBSD? and why? Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 24-Oct-00 Scott D. Yelich wrote: > Would someone please be so kind as to explain to me the rationale behind > that? Why should a user or script have to be forced to get dot files > just because it's running under uid 0? This seems to really have a > major impact on portable scripts ... they have a chance to be dangerous > under FreeBSD now -- due to this setting. It's odd but hardly terrible. I don't think it's smart either but you could just ask nicely.. > Why is FreeBSD trying to be like 'blows where it tries to think for the > user? Only, it's much worse than that as there doesn't appear to be a > way to override this setting. > > This doesn't appear to be the default forGNU ls, so who "broke" this? Ahh, of course, GNU is the source for all standards information.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message