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Re: MiNT-Library: Bugs



Chris Herborth wrote:
> 
> In <94Nov21.130652mesz.209155-1@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>, you write:
> >Frank Bartels wrote:
> >> > stat.c: +nox
> >> >   In lstat(), maybe make filenames with trailing slash follow symlinks?
> >> >   sometimes it would be nice if i could do `ls -l /usr/' and get whats 
> >> >   in there, not just the link...
> >> >   [This sounds like a bad idea to me.  Sounds like a kludge in ls is
> >> >   what's needed here, if anything. -entropy]
> >> 
> >> No! No! No! `ls -l /usr/' *has* to follow the link! And it does on my
> >> SunOS 4 and FreeBSD machine. *Please* change this behaviour!
> >
> >Then why is there an option --dereference in the GNU-ls?
> 
> Is it an option or the default behaviour?

It is an option.

Stephan

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