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ls -l --color [was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-6.10-1]
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Eric Blake |
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ls -l --color [was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-6.10-1] |
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Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:13:16 +0000 (UTC) |
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Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:
>
> Thanks, but I'd like to retain the default (a deliberate "feature"
> that ls -l --color does not stat the referent of each symlink it encounters.
>
> From reading the comments, you can guess that this behavior change was
> deliberate. Sorry I didn't make it clearer. Dereferencing symlinks
> just to color them is highly undesirable (at least in some environments),
> hence the change so that ls --color no longer does that by default.
> The marginal benefit of coloring the RHS was outweighed by the potential
> negative impact of the additional stat calls.
Fair enough; but can we at least get it mentioned in NEWS that this was a
deliberate change?
>
> I think we'll need some new LS_COLORS-specified option to
> reenable coloring of the symlink referent in a long listing.
>
And I agree with you that this can wait until after 6.11 to figure out the best
approach for such an option.
--
Eric Blake