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Date: | Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:04:18 -0600 |
From: | Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net> |
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Subject: | Re: Ls POSIX style slink output |
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Matt Seitz (matseitz) on 9/19/2007 5:32 PM: > What do you think of changing "ls -l" to display symbolic links using > POSIX style paths instead of Windows style? > > When I run "ls -l /etc", the symbolic links are displayed using Windows > format ("C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts"). It would be easier to > copy and paste the output to a "cd" command if "ls -l" displayed a POSIX > style path ("/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc/hosts"). Symlinks merely contain whatever text they were created with. If the text it was created with was Windows style, then readlink(2) will not translate it. I suppose I could try to patch ln(1) to posix-ify any name that looks like a Windows filename before actually calling symlink(2), but I'm not sure it buys much. So for now, it's a feature, not a bug. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9 AT byu DOT net volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG8ccS84KuGfSFAYARAiOFAJ0URAAePBKMruh7nJ6Es6jalbTGTQCeLeVE lb9xV3saURobKFO1VcP1wqU= =z5Kf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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