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On Saturday 24 April 2004 01:09 pm, Daniel Drake wrote: |
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> If you make your new behaviour default, you may break many peoples scripts |
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> that expect the size column to be 8 characters long. |
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> My opinion is that your modification should become accessible only through |
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> a non-default commandline parameter. |
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actually i dont think anyone does that since 8 char is the *max* not the size |
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*always* used |
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i was just programming something when i noticed that i had a dir of files that |
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all were under 10000bytes ... then i made a file (by accident) that had more |
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than that ... the output of `ls -l` changed to accomodate the larger file ... |
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when i deleted it, the # of chars used to output the size shrunk from |
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before ... |
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so i dont think you'd break anything if the new patch became default |
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behavior ... 'proper' parsing would have done it via awk or cut or something |
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that operated on existence of whitespace (and not the size) as the |
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delimiter ... |
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as such, please file a bug with your patch Jason and assign it to |
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base-system@g.o |
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-mike |
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