From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <200106091636.SAA03323@mother.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: .files on servers are perceived as readonly
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Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 18:36:04 +0200 (MEST)
In-Reply-To: <3B2207A2.AC9FB825@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> from "Richard Dawe" at Jun 09, 2001 12:25:22 PM
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According to Richard Dawe:
> Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> > By the way there seems to be a bug here (it's my own compiled ls so
> > perhaps not the latest):
> 
> Is your version built against CVS? If it's built against djdev203, did you
> apply the opendir.c patch?

It's built with some version of cvs. I don't remember which day it was
I rebuilt fileutils so some unknow state of cvs.

> > > ls -agl v:/martin/djgpp/djgpp/src/libc/
> > total 0
> > ----d-        96 Jun  8 23:10 cvs
> > 
> > Is it supposed to bahave like that?
> 
> How were you expecting it to behave?

At least list v:/martin/djgpp/djgpp/src/libc/ or everything in that
directory, not just cvs.

> I tried it with stock Fileutils 4.0 (built against 2.03) and the
> symlink-enabled version I uploaded yesterday and I more than one file
> listed, when doing an 'ls -agl' against my copy of djgpp/src/libc/.
> 
> > Plus a bug in the docs. They say "The '-g' option is accepted but
> > ignored, for compatiblity with Unix." in the ls node.
> 
> I couldn't find '-g' in the Fileutils docs, but Unix98 says this:
> 
>     "-g The same as -l, except that the owner is not written."
> 
> Presumably the bug is that it does take noticed of '-g'. If so, I will
> submit a patch to Jim Meyering.

It looks like our -- err, _my_ fileutils report the DOZE attributes.


Right,

						MartinS