Re: standards/46956: "ls -A" violates POSIX-2008

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR bin/46956; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
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Subject: Re: standards/46956: "ls -A" violates POSIX-2008
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:32:57 -0400

 On Sep 14, 11:45am, kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost (Robert Elz) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: standards/46956: "ls -A" violates POSIX-2008
 
 | The following reply was made to PR bin/46956; it has been noted by GNATS.
 | 
 | From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
 | To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 | Cc: 
 | Subject: Re: standards/46956: "ls -A" violates POSIX-2008
 | Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:27:41 +0700
 | 
 |  It isn't actually the -A flag that you're complaing about, but the
 |  normal behaviour of BSD ls when run by root, which has been the way it
 |  is on NetBSD essentially forever (closer to 1983 than 1993) - well
 |  before there ever was a -A flag.
 |  
 |  I doubt very much that almost anyone is going to be interested in
 |  altering this behaviour after all this time - aside from anything else
 |  it would break backward compatability for any scripts that assume it.
 |  
 |  Just close this PR...
 
 This is a job for $POSIXLY_CORRECT...
 
 christos