Re: [gentoo-dev] coreutils patch for 'ls -l' of GB files

[Jason Cooper]

Mike Frysinger (vapier@g.o) scribbled:
> On Saturday 24 April 2004 01:09 pm, Daniel Drake wrote:
> > If you make your new behaviour default, you may break many peoples scripts
> > that expect the size column to be 8 characters long.
> >
> > My opinion is that your modification should become accessible only through
> > a non-default commandline parameter.
>
> actually i dont think anyone does that since 8 char is the *max* not the size
> *always* used

?  Here is the output of my `ls -l` after creating 15 5k files w/ dd.

total 120
-rw-r--r--    1 jcooper  users        5120 Apr 29 07:39 temp01
-rw-r--r--    1 jcooper  users        5120 Apr 29 07:39 temp02
-rw-r--r--    1 jcooper  users        5120 Apr 29 07:39 temp03
-rw-r--r--    1 jcooper  users        5120 Apr 29 07:39 temp04
-rw-r--r--    1 jcooper  users        5120 Apr 29 07:39 temp05
-rw-r--r--    1 jcooper  users        5120 Apr 29 07:39 temp06
-rw-r--r--    1 jcooper  users        5120 Apr 29 07:39 temp07
-rw-r--r--    1 jcooper  users        5120 Apr 29 07:39 temp08
-rw-r--r--    1 jcooper  users        5120 Apr 29 07:39 temp09
-rw-r--r--    1 jcooper  users        5120 Apr 29 07:39 temp10
-rw-r--r--    1 jcooper  users        5120 Apr 29 07:39 temp11
-rw-r--r--    1 jcooper  users        5120 Apr 29 07:39 temp12
-rw-r--r--    1 jcooper  users        5120 Apr 29 07:39 temp13
-rw-r--r--    1 jcooper  users        5120 Apr 29 07:39 temp14
-rw-r--r--    1 jcooper  users        5120 Apr 29 07:39 temp15
                |        |        |        |   <---8 chars and a space.

This is with the unmodified version.  It appears to be staying with
eight chars width.  What version of coreutils are you using?  I'm using:

*  sys-apps/coreutils
      Latest version available: 5.0.91-r4
      Latest version installed: 5.0.91-r4
>
> i was just programming something when i noticed that i had a dir of files that
> all were under 10000bytes ... then i made a file (by accident) that had more
> than that ... the output of `ls -l` changed to accomodate the larger file ...
> when i deleted it, the # of chars used to output the size shrunk from
> before ...
>
> so i dont think you'd break anything if the new patch became default
> behavior ... 'proper' parsing would have done it via awk or cut or something
> that operated on existence of whitespace (and not the size) as the
> delimiter ...
>
> as such, please file a bug with your patch Jason and assign it to
> base-system@g.o
> -mike

Working on it. :)


Cooper.

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