Please keep me updated on this issue and perhaps link the Austin Group defect in this bug report.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:51:31AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 06/30/2014 10:22 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > > Eric Blake wrote: > >> All other ls implementations behave the same. > > > > Unfortunately that's not the case, as AIX 7.1 behaves the way the > > original requestor asked for, as does 7th Edition Unix. Furthermore, > > the POSIX spec's EXAMPLES section > > <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ls.html#tag_20_73_17> > > (admittedly informative) agrees with AIX 7.1 and 7th Edition Unix. My > > guess is that POSIX intended to specify the traditional behavior. > > However, so many implementations have gotten it wrong that one could > > easily argue the wording is unclear, and that the POSIX wording should > > be fixed to make it clear that both the traditional and the common > > behavior are allowed. Another possibility is that we could change GNU > > ls to behave like traditional ls. > > Then I'll go ahead and raise a defect report with the Austin Group, and > report back here once I get more of a feel for what will happen in POSIX. > > -- > Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org > -- () ascii ribbon campaign - for an 8-bit clean world /\ - against html email - against proprietary attachments
