[4419] in testers
color ls considered harmful
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Sat Jun 3 01:32:34 2000
Message-Id: <200006030532.BAA03027@sweet-transvestite.mit.edu>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 01:32:26 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
I noticed a while ago that color ls was on by default on the 8.4
linux machines. I found out tonight why this is a bad idea. Because
color ls has to stat every entry in a directory, "ls /afs" becomes a
surprisingly painful operation. It would be nice if we could disable
color ls by default.
Garry
