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Re: Fwd: root.othercells - a solution to "ls /afs" takes a long time
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Wed Jul 26 13:54:20 2000
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu, pbh@mit.edu
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 26 Jul 2000 13:54:14 -0400
In-Reply-To: Bill Cattey's message of "Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:25:14 -0400 (EDT)"
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<wdc@MIT.EDU> (Bill Cattey) writes:
> What do people think of implementing this (interesting and pragmatic)
> hack at MIT? As more and more vendors insist on statting the world when
> they start up their file browsers, it may be that we need to cave in to
> the ubituitous stupid developers and move the clean namespace aside into
> something that will be more liberal in what it accepts.
In my experience, most if not all choosers present symlinks to
directories differently from symlinks to files and would therefore
continue to lose.
(Incidentally, ls -F also loses...ls -l is safe, though.)
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
