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- From: carl@montebello.ecom.unimelb.EDU.AU (Carl Brewer)
- Subject: Re: The case of the symbolic link traversal in 4.1.3
- Message-ID: <9231200.756@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: Dept. Engineering Computer Resources, Melbourne Uni.
- References: <398@ftms.UUCP> <1992Nov4.143520.22406@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 13:51:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov4.143520.22406@newsgate.sps.mot.com> mario@wdc.sps.mot.com (Mario Nigrovic) writes:
- >In article <398@ftms.UUCP>, brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
- >|>
- >|> Over the weekend I upgraded a bunch of our SPARCstations to 4.1.3, from 4.1.1
- >|> and 4.1.2.
- >|>
- >|> In the past, if one did a 'ls -lga dir_name' and the dir_name was a symbolic
- >|> link, one could see the contents of the linked directory by appending / to
- >|> the end and doing ls again (ls -lga dir_name/). Used to work great. Now
- >|> 4.1.3 comes along and still only reports the link.
- >|>
- >|> Why the Hell did Sun change ls so that it doesn't work the same as it used to?
- >|> It came in very handy to be able to traverse the link by adding a / to the path.
- >|>
- >|> It doesn't matter if I use zsh or csh, it don't work.
- >|>
- >|> How do I get the old method back??????? Don't say to use the -L option to ls
- >|> either. If I have that as part of my alias, then I will never know if it is
- >|> a link or not. Is there a patch to restore it the way it shoudl be?
- >|>
- >|> Thanks.
- >|>
- >|> (Yes, I'm pissed :-)
- >
- >I know it's a kludge, but how about ls -l dir_name/. ?
- >
- >Seems silly for sun to have made that particular change, but maybe there were some
- >other ramifications of the old style? (Like "Won't work in Solaris2.0"?)
- >
- >Anyone out there have any more input?
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- maybe their phasing in sys V ....
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- blergghhh ...
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- > Mario
- >
- >Mario Nigrovic <mario@wdc.sps.mot.com> voice: (602) 821-4264
- >Motorola Western MCU Design Center fax: (602) 821-4058
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