At 10:48 AM +1000 6/22/04, Greg Black wrote:
The output of ls has never been good for reproduceable output
for identical data. It frequently leads to gigantic "diffs"
in periodic reports which makes them useless, as far as I can
tell. Take the following case:
Hmm. I never thought much about that before.
Perhaps we should use the output from the `stat' command for
all of these tests in the periodic scripts. That way we could
pick an exact format.
Or maybe those scripts should take advantage of:
LS_COLWIDTHS:
If this variable is set, it is considered to be a colon-
delimited list of minimum column widths. Unreasonable
and insufficient widths are ignored (thus zero signifies
a dynamically sized column). Not all columns have
changeable widths. The fields are, in order: inode,
block count, number of links, user name, group name,
flags, file size, file name.
Those might make the periodic checks more useful. Which scripts
have this problem? In a very quick check, I only noticed an `ls'
command in security/100.chksetuid. Anything else?
Note that I am not volunteering to do the work, though...
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