Re: ls operation changed

["nate" <redhat aphroland org>]

Vidiot said:

> Whose brilliant idea was it to change the behavior of ls after all these
> years? Or is the RH 7.1 version broken?

I like the behavior you see better personally.

I tested it on FreeBSD 4.7, SuSE 8.1, Red Hat 7.3, Debian 3.0r1, and..
wait..yes...Solaris 8(sparc). I have a solaris 9 box as well but that
system is not turned on.

in all cases I did:

ln -s /tmp blah

and did ls blah

and it showed the contents of /tmp

on solaris I verified that I am using /usr/bin/ls and not a 3rd party
version of ls, I also tested it with /usr/xpg4/bin/ls with the same
results. I also tested it with /usr/ucb/ls with the same results.

(for reference: SunOS supernova 5.8 Generic_108528-18 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2)

too lazy to fire up my irix or AIX machines to test but I think
the result would be the same ....

which specific version of solaris do you see the behavior your
expecting(by default)?

nate