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| From: | Daniel Drake <dsd@g.o> | ||
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| To: | Jason Cooper <gentoo@××××××××××.net> | ||
| Cc: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] coreutils patch for 'ls -l' of GB files | ||
| Date: | Sat, 24 Apr 2004 17:06:41 | ||
| Message-Id: | 408A9F56.9030209@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] coreutils patch for 'ls -l' of GB files by Jason Cooper |
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| 1 | Hi, |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Jason Cooper wrote: |
| 4 | |
| 5 | > So my question for you guys is this: Should I submit this to the |
| 6 | > coreutils owner? It's stupid simple, literally a one-line patch. I'd |
| 7 | > make it a command line option, but I think they left it hard-coded for a |
| 8 | > reason... |
| 9 | |
| 10 | If you make your new behaviour default, you may break many peoples scripts |
| 11 | that expect the size column to be 8 characters long. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | My opinion is that your modification should become accessible only through a |
| 14 | non-default commandline parameter. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | Daniel |
| 17 | |
| 18 | -- |
| 19 | gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] coreutils patch for 'ls -l' of GB files | Jason Cooper <gentoo@××××××××××.net> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] coreutils patch for 'ls -l' of GB files | Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> |