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Bug 515499

Summary:	Incorrect output of ls -1U with more than one argument
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Component:	coreutils	Assignee:	Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.3	CC:	asersen, azelinka, kdudka, rvokal
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Regression
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	coreutils-5.97-28.el5	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Previously, when the "ls -1U" command was called with two or more arguments and with at least one non-empty directory as an argument, directory entry names were printed before the name of their parent directories. This bug has been fixed and now the entries are printed in correct order.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2011-07-21 10:35:24 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Ondrej Vasik 2009-08-04 15:01:08 UTC

Description of problem:
Due to the fix of #441807, ls -1U (with two or more arguments, at least one a nonempty directory) would print entry names *before* the name of the containing directory. It affects also incorrect output of ls -1RU and ls -1sU.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
coreutils-5.97-15.el5 and later

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. have two dirs with files (e.g. foo and bar)
2. ls -1U foo bar

  
Actual results:
Entries are printed before the name of the directory.

Expected results:
Name is printed before the entries.

Additional info:
Although it is regression, impact is quite low. Anyway it could cause issues in some scripts, so it's worth to fix it.

Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2009-08-04 15:03:08 UTC

Upstream commit with fix : http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=493c48168490247c88e9fd20916432efc859c6a4

Comment 3 Kamil Dudka 2009-08-05 08:12:07 UTC

Corresponding test-case written by Jim Meyering:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=5874a8215deb28918a049ba24c4335f7a7fb74e1

Comment 11 Tomas Capek 2011-07-13 12:10:38 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
Previously, when the "ls -1U" command was called with two or more arguments and with at least one non-empty directory as an argument, directory entry names were printed before the name   of their parent directories. This bug has been fixed and now the entries are printed in correct order.

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2011-07-21 10:35:24 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1074.html

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2011-07-21 12:10:43 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1074.html