[BusyBox] New patches

[Mark Whitley]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:46:02PM -0600, David Douthitt wrote:
> I've modified my two patches slightly.
> 
> One (ls.c-fix.patch) is for the problem with file sizes; it would
> appear that one version I have modified the BLOCKS and not the size in
> bytes.  The new patch works with file sizes only, not file blocks.

This looks identical to the patch of yours that I committed just a minute ago.
Is there some subtlety I'm missing?

> The other (ls.c-Aopt.patch) is the same as before but now contains a
> modification to Config.h to make it an optional feature.  The idea is
> that when logged in as root, "-A" is automatically assumed for ls -
> allowing root to see all those files that some hacker's trying to
> hide.

I was able to break Erik away from his work for just a minute and got the
official response from him: This patch makes busybox behave differently than
GNU ls so it will not be applied. I will post a message with this reason to
the bug-tracker and close bug #1112.


Thanks for the help, David.


Mark Whitley
markw at lineo.com