tag 17618 wontfix thanks On 05/28/2014 07:36 AM, Michał Adamczyk wrote: > Call it a bug or call it a feature. It is dangerous though. > > When using `ls -l` to list a directory with links in it, it will produce > an output similar to this: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 user group 30 1980-01-01 00:01 link_name -> > /path/to/destination/file
> > Since the output is empty, you'll get the target of that link > overwritten with an empty file. > > My suggestion is to change the representation symbols of link to > something that won't get interpreted. The use of "->" is required by POSIX: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ls.html >> If the file is a symbolic link and the -L option is not specified, this >> information shall be about the link itself and the <pathname> field shall be >> of the form: >> >> "%s -> %s", <pathname of link>, <contents of link> >> So we can't change it unless we add a NEW option; but adding a new option means that it won't be available by default. There have been suggestions in the past about using a UTF-8 arrow, but they have similarly been rejected. Sorry. I'm closing this report, because we can't do anything about it; but feel free to add further comments. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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