/bin/ls vs .dotted files
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Thu Sep 13 17:41:17 PDT 2012
I can't think of a good reason why f_listdot is set for root
automatically,
It goes all the way back to the original import in 2003 when we forked
from FreeBSD.
FreeBSD still turns it on automatically but added a -I option that
turns it off.
/* Root is -A automatically unless -I. */
if (!f_listdot && getuid() == (uid_t)0 && !f_noautodot)
f_listdot = 1;
At the very least I will bring in this change. But it may well be
that we should also change the default to NOT be -A for root.
-Matt
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