Subject: bug#25388: Bug in ls, kills existing scripts reading "ls" -1 as input

From: L A Walsh <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 13:23:52 -0800

Eric Blake wrote:
> On 01/09/2017 01:53 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
>>> And POSIX merely codified existing practice (this is nothing new - it
>>> has been this way since the 70's)
>> ---
>>     Not anymore.
>>
>>     Breaking "rm -fr ." wasn't an existing practice except
>> at BSD-using dists (like BSD & SunOS).  While Solaris was SysV, since it
>> was bought up, it has changed.
> 
> Please quit trying to change the topic.
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You said that posix codified existing practice and that it has been
this way since the 70's.  This is not true.

You are making overly broad statements, or, more likely, 
using indeterminant pronouns.