Bug 90251
| Summary: | ls -L (--dereference) does not show linked name | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | G. Reno <grenoml> |
| Component: | coreutils | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | mitr |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-05-06 17:00:49 UTC | Type: | --- |
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IMHO it seems to be right. -L means "show information about the file symlink points to". The file A the symlink L points to is not a symlink, therefore the path that is printed for L doesn't show the path of the symlink, same as it doesn't print times for L, but for A. Miloslav, I'm not understanding your comment. You say it seems right and yet your argument is exactly what I'm showing as the problem. Look at my examples. Using -L shows you the times for the linked-file not the symlink. That is correct. But it is not showing the name of the linked-file it is still showing the name of the symlink - I'm saying that this is not correct. When you dereference something you expect to have everything dereferenced not just part of something dereferenced. thx, Gerry Reno Reported upstream. G.,
look at it this way: -L makes the symlink completely behave as if it were the
file pointed to.
ls Name
ls: Name, what are you?
Name: I'm a symlink, modified on jan 1, pointing to Foo
ls Foo:
ls: Foo, what are you?
foo: i'm a regular file, modified on feb 23.
ls -l Name
Name (pretending to be foo): I'm a regular file, modified on feb 23.
Anyway, let upstream decide.
Mirek
Jim Meyering says that this behaviour conforms to POSIX, and is consistent with (for example) Solaris' ls(1). He has modified the documentation to be more clear on this issue. Well, it may be POSIX-conformant but it is certainly a strange way to implement dereferencing. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: the -L (--dereference) switch to 'ls' does not work properly. when I enter: $ ls -Ld {some link} I should NOT see the linkname but rather the filename that the link is pointing to. If I want to obtain information about the file that the link is pointing to I should be able to do: $ ls -Lld {some link} and see drwxr-xr-x 14 root mysql 4096 Apr 22 00:00 /usr/local/mysql-max-4.1.0-alpha-pc-linux-i686 which is where my link points. Instead I am seeing: drwxr-xr-x 14 root mysql 4096 Apr 22 00:00 /usr/local/mysql which is showing info for the linked-file all except for its name which displays as the name of the link. - this mixture does not appear to be correct. thx, Gerry Reno Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): coreutils-4.5.3-19 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. read description above 2. 3. Additional info: