Glenn, are you dong this, and the ls(1) builtin, for the next alpha, please?

Olga

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 3:59 AM, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 01:15:30 +0200 Roland Mainz wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > the AT&T Software Technology ast alpha 2013-08-29 source release
>> > has been posted to the download site
>> >         http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/alpha/
>> > the package names and md5 checksums are
>> >             INIT  132e0403af573fa1cb1e202267fedeb8
>> >         ast-open  334615fb3a652575106194c281d27b5c
>> >          ast-ksh  ebcc56d9ab673aaafbb163d6eee1a93c
>> > the md5 sums should match the ones listed on the download page
>
> well that RELEASE note was optimistic
>
> I had it and ls.c over there before I realized that ast ls has not been 
> fts-ized yet
> it uses the ancient ast pre-fts ftwalk() api
>
> background: ast fts*() was unwound from ast ftwalk() and then proposed to 
> posix
> bsd joined in the proposal
> ite never made it into posix (too much invention) but bsd retained it
>
> anyway, for the next alpha the top of my list is to *at()-ize fts, add 
> fts_dirfd,
> eliminate chdir() calls by all of the libcmd -R commands, and then fts-ize ls
>
> the last part is non-trivial because it involves fts_children(), the trickiest
> part of the fts api -- particularly maddening is the fact that the current
> ast ftwalk() itself uses fts -- I tabled it for this release and hope to have
> a better day when I get back to it
>
>> Minor issue:
>> 1. The annoucement email didn't contain any comments about libcmd changes
>> 2. src/lib/libcmd/RELEASE says...
>> -- snip --
>> 13-08-11 ls.c: move from src/cmd/std
>> -- snip --
>> ... but there is no ls.c in the ast-ksh sources...
>
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