Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ls -A
Message-ID: <1248@virtech.UUCP>
Date: 8 Oct 89 02:40:54 GMT
References: <15@minya.UUCP> <14611@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <1989Oct7.191435.26382@rpi.edu>
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In article <1989Oct7.191435.26382@rpi.edu>, tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
> So you're saying then that the shell glob functions in a BSD universe
> should check for uid 0 and expand * to all non-`.' and `..' entries in a
> directory?  It doesn't:

Basicly yes, it should. (Just my opinion)  However, I think this could 
break lots of existing shells, so it probably wouldn't be implemented even
if somebody else thought it should be that way.

> Darn those broken shells.  (To be fair, Conor didn't comment on
> whether ls -A for root is "the right thing", but it does not have the
> consistency he addressed in the article.)

I don't like it.  If I wanted to see the . files I would use the -a.  I don't
feel that it provides any special service to have it operate differently
for root.  Root should know enough to use the -a when he wants to.


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