[BusyBox] Patches for auto "-A" and for doubling of bytes

Vladimir N. Oleynik dzo at simtreas.ru
Tue Mar 20 16:05:41 UTC 2001


David Douthitt wrote:

> Also, re: wishlist item #1112, here is the patch against busybox 0.50.
> I remember Vlad didn't find the case particularly compelling, thus I
> would strongly encourage updating it to be an option.  I'll probably do
> this and post it if no one else does....

???

Please, do not do it. It is very inconvenient. 
If I do so in script: 

% LIST=`ls`

That I should be sure, that in the list there will be files necessary to me,
without
dependence from uid.

Therefore, I think behaviour GNU-utils correct.  

> --- ls.c        Fri Mar  9 15:24:12 2001
> +++ ls.c.2.new  Tue Mar 20 09:45:21 2001
> @@ -836,6 +836,13 @@
>                 }
>         }
> 
> +       if ((geteuid()) == 0) {
> +
> +               /* equivalent to '-A' option automatically set for root */
> +
> +               disp_opts |= DISP_HIDDEN;
> +       }
> +


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vodz





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