On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:40:03PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 21:30, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Character 10 in "ls -l" output can have values from "xtT", character 7 can
>have values from "xsS", and character 1 can have many values.
Yes, and we've learned that it's pretty confusing. It will be even more
Obviously opinion varies, I didn't find it any more confusing than the rest of
the "ls -l" output when I was learning how ls works.
Well, you're obviously gifted, even though you forgot character 4. :-)
In my experience a lot of users would be surprised to find an S in their
ls output. And at least there's some consistency & correlation between
x, t, T, s, and S, whereas the new attributes are completely
independent. Character 1 can have many values, but they are exclusive;
the extended access char would be easy if the various methods couldn't
be combined.
confusing for a non-standard set of character codes than it is for a set
that have been used for decades. We've already identified a need for
3 bits of information encoded into that byte, and I suspect that it's
I'm not sure that Jim was really serious about the user-xattr.
IIRC, he mentioned chattr attributes (e.g., immutable, append-only),
which arguably should also be reflected somehow.
Mike Stone
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