Hi, coreutils team Since coreutils-6.3, the behaver of 'ls -L (--dereference)' seem to have changed. 'ls -L' doesn't follow symbolic link, even though 'ls -Lt' follows. Till coreutils-5.97, both 'ls -L' and 'ls -Lt' followed.
I found the following commitment made this change. http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/coreutils/src/ls.c?root=coreutils&r1=1.405&r2=1.406 I'm not sure the new behaver is a bug or not, but it seems to be easy to reverse by an attached patch (if there is no side effect). In my opinion it is a bug, so I'll be glad if it is fixed. --- coreutils-6.7/src/ls.c.orig 2006-11-27 19:25:51.000000000 +0900 +++ coreutils-6.7/src/ls.c 2006-12-17 23:48:31.000000000 +0900 @@ -1218,6 +1218,7 @@ format_needs_stat = sort_type == sort_time || sort_type == sort_size || format == long_format + || dereference == DEREF_ALWAYS || print_block_size; format_needs_type = (! format_needs_stat && (recursive Sample operation: % cd coreutils-6.7/src/ % mkdir foo % mkdir bar % ln -s ../bar foo <<new behaver>> % ./ls --version ls (GNU coreutils) 6.7 .... (snip) % ./ls -F foo bar@ % ./ls -FR foo foo: bar@ % ./ls -FRL foo foo: bar@ <-- doesn't follow sym-link % ./ls -FRLt foo foo: bar/ <-- combination with 't' let follow foo/bar: <<old behaver>> % \ls --version ls (fileutils) 4.1 .... (snip) % \ls -F foo bar@ % \ls -FR foo foo: bar@ % \ls -FRL foo foo: bar/ <-- only '-L' let follow foo/bar: -- Best regards, Nobuyuki Tsuchimura _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
