guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (03/11/90)
(The answer to the final question is "yes", which is why I'm redirecting this to "comp.bugs.sys5".) >But this time it shows as: > >/usr/5bin/ls -bl > >-rw------- 1 hans ph 31181 Mar 8 11:32 \777 > >I thought \777 was 511, which doesn't fit into a char. >Od-ing the directory shows that the file is called \377. > >Bug in ls ? Yes. The code that handles non-printable characters in the S5R3 "ls" prints a backslash, followed by "'0' + (c>>6 & 07)", followed by the next two digits, where "c", an "int", is the character in question. The astute reader can tell what is wrong with the expression used to generate the character printed after the backslash (at least on machines that don't have 9-bit bytes :-)).... It's not fixed in S5R3.1, either (although '\377' *is* printable in ISO Latin #1, and S5R3.1 supports some internationalization stuff so with the right terminal this isn't a problem; the same is true of SunOS 4.1 :-)).