On Sep 19, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote:
On Sep 19, 2006, at 19:12 , Steve Checkoway wrote:
I think the issue is that this behavior seems to contradict what
the man page says:
-L If argument is a symbolic link, list the file or
directory the
link references rather than the link itself. This
option cancels
the -P option.
I think if you read that correctly (i.e., the way I do :-}), it
says that instead of seeing the *file information* for the symlink,
as in
I read it as saying that if the argument is a symlink (as is foop
below), then it will list the file or directory the link references
(goop in this case), rather than the link itself. I'm not sure how
else to read that.
In this case, it's showing the metadata of goop as being the metadata
of foop and not even showing that foop is a symlink. This seems even
worse.
The file information in Unix file systems is divorced from the file
name.
Well, I'm not using UFS here, but I know what you're saying. I'm
really not sure how you managed to read the man page in that way.
Keep in mind, I quote the BSD man page, not the GNU man page (of
which I seem to have two different versions) which does mention file
information.
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