I am submitting a patch for the program 'ls'. This patch changes the way that 'ls' output's long_output ('ls -l', -g, etc). The way it changes the output is that it adds the Octal equivalent of the permission modes next to the regular rwxrwxrwx style permissions. New users, and even veterans usually have a hard time remembering the octal equivalents when doing routine maintenance on their machines using 'chmod', and often have to look up the values in a table. Why should users have to look up rwxrwxrwx conversions for chmod? I don't think they should. This is a very small patch, I ask that you consider implementing it and letting me know if you decide to use it or not. I think this would be *very* useful to the unix community. This is my first time submitting a patch, I hope I did it right :)
A quick example of what it looks like after the change and running 'ls -l':
-rwxr-xr-x [ 755] 1 mrdurden user 91717 2003-12-11 18:44 uptime
Here is the patch:
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--- ls.c Thu Dec 11 18:45:22 2003 +++ newls.c Thu Dec 11 18:52:30 2003 @@ -2975,7 +2975,7 @@
/* The last byte of the mode string is the POSIX
"optional alternate access method flag". */
- sprintf (p, "%s %3lu ", modebuf, (unsigned long) f->stat.st_nlink);
+ sprintf (p, "%s [%4o] %3lu ", modebuf, f->stat.st_mode & 07777, (unsigned long) f->stat.st_nlink);
p += strlen (p);
if (print_owner)
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Please let me know what you think,
Thank you very much for your time, and for donating your time to create such wonderful unix utilities,
Chris Van Nuys
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