https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2710
--- Comment #2 from DOUGLAS MCILROY <[email protected]> --- It is more than unfortunate. It gives misinformation: link count 0. One can learn by experiment that this is a quirk, but one's first impression is that something has gone wrong. While a change in protocol probably is the best fix, the bug could be ameliorated by either of the following client-side methods: 1. Always perform ls -l as if it had no arguments, then display only the requested entries. This gives fully familiar output at extra cost in server-side processing and data transmission. It probably entails a net reduction in code. 2. Display link count as a nonnumeric indicator, e.g. one of {- _ ?}. This eliminates the worst misunderstanding, but still gives surprising, although correct, uid and gid. It costs nothing. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. You are watching someone on the CC list of the bug. _______________________________________________ openssh-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-bugs
