ls(1) new command line options '-/' and '-%': CIFS system attributes support [PSARC/2007/394 FastTrack timeout 07/11/2007]

[Joerg Schilling]

Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat at sun.com> wrote:

> > Yes.  The project team chose not to do that because it could break
> > scripts that are using ls to process ACLs.
>
> Is the syntax of the -v an -V ACL display defined in PSARC/2006/043 
> actually intended to be and given a taxonomy that allows for parsing ? 
> That arc case doesn't actually say what stability the output has.
>
> Also given that it is really still quite new and currently only applies 
> to ZFS and NFSv4 anyway (for -V) I think the risk of extending it is 
> minimal and would be my preferred outcome.
>
> One has to know what the underlying filesystem actually is to know what 
> output style you will get from -v and -V (UFS,TMPFS,NFSv3 will give very 
> different output than NFSv4 and ZFS) means that parsing the output of 
> ls(1) is very complex and IMO unlikely to be reliable anyway.

If I understand you correctly, you like to propose to add an optional argument
to -V. This is something POSIX does not like.

Jörg

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