On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 04:53:16PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:50:34PM -0400, Ian Murdock wrote: > > On 5/12/07, Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:05:38AM -0400, Ian Murdock wrote: > > > > On 5/10/07, Frank Van Der Linden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Peter C. Norton wrote: > > > > > > You may continue to be snarky if ls -h became a common solaris > > > > > > invocation, but I doubt your users would be upset at no longer > > > > > > having > > > > > > to multiply by 2 to get K, and to get the size rounded to MB, GB, > > > > > > etc. > > > > > > > > > > I'm not sure what you mean here. Are you talking about making -h the > > > > > default? I doubt that would be standards compliant.. > > > > > > > > As I'll say till I'm blue in the face, I'm as obsessed with > > > > compatibility as anyone here. But I have to ask: What exactly > > > > would break if -h *were* the default behavior? > > > > > > As Joerg pointed out, that'd be POSIX compatibility... > > > > And that would break... what, exactly?
Oh, I forgot. It would break this promise from Sun:
man ls:
____________________________________________________________
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| Availability | SUNWcsu |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| CSI | Enabled |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| Interface Stability | Stable |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
man attributes:
Stable
A Stable interface is a mature interface under Sun's
control. Sun will try to avoid non-upwards-compatible
changes to these interfaces, especially in minor or
micro releases.
Ceri
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