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

[Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>]

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

From: Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>
To: Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: standards/46956: "ls -A" violates POSIX-2008
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:37:37 +0300

 > This is a job for $POSIXLY_CORRECT...
 
 When I said that -A always enabled for root user violates POSIX
 I made a mistake. Sorry for noise.
 
 Implementation-defined "condition" are explicitely allowed.
 
    Filenames beginning with a <period> ( '.' ) and any associated
 information shall not
    be written out unless explicitly referenced, the -A or -a option is
 supplied, or an
   implementation-defined condition causes them to be written.
 
 I think it is useless but if it exists since 1979...