mcgrath%tully.Berkeley.EDU@GINGER.BERKELEY.EDU (Roland McGrath) (12/07/88)
Unix ls lists the contents of a symlink to a directory as if it were a normal directory. When there is only one directory being listed, the directory name and following colon should not be printed. When listing several directories, the second and subsequent directories should be preceeded with blank lines (before the directory name and colon).
rms@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman) (12/08/88)
I am not sure it is desirable to change all of those things. Perhaps some of them.
mcgrath%tully.Berkeley.EDU@GINGER.BERKELEY.EDU (Roland McGrath) (12/08/88)
The thing about blank lines between directories is really trivial and doesn't make any difference, and I don't mind seeing a directory label on single directories either. But listing symlinks to directories as directories is much nicer. This matters to me a lot because my home directory consists of about eight symlinks to directories on other disks (because the disk my home directory is on doesn't have space).