GNU bug report logs - #15828
behavior of ls -f

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Aharon Robbins <arnold <at> skeeve.com>

Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 18:56:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #15 received at 15828 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>, 
 Aharon Robbins <arnold <at> skeeve.com>
Cc: 15828 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15828: behavior of ls -f
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 12:02:02 -0800

On 11/07/2013 11:57 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I don't see a need for -f to ignore any -l

One could argue that -f should disable -l
if _POSIX2_VERSION is 200112 or earlier,
I'm not sure it's worth the hassle to
implement that, though.
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