Hello,
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 12:40:12AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 29 March 2007 00:26, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.patches/2730/focus=2740>
> > Eric's patch seems to indicate that line 92 needs changed, too.
> > (I haven't tested any on w32.)
>
> I don't quite understand that myself; ISTM that having -n in $ls_command
> should do the job for both cases.
A wild guess:
Though the current situation is this (quoting Eric):
$ \ls -ld /
drwxrwx---+ 14 eblake Users 0 Feb 2 07:58 /
$ \ls -lLd doc/m4.texinfo
-rw-r--r-- 1 eblake Domain Users 221922 Mar 1 14:50 doc/m4.texinfo
it might be possible that even the user or group owner of / would
have a blank it its name. (With Cygwin, one never knows.)
So it is safer to use -n with ls /, too.
Just guessing, I'm not a Cygwin user.
Stepan Kasal
