Re: ls -Rd behavior

[John Cowan]

Eric Blake scripsit:

> Since POSIX states "The use of -d with -R produces unspecified results," 
> should 
> we change ls to reject -Rd and -dR as invalid option combinations rather than 
> the current behavior of ignoring -R when -d is present?

Better yet, why not DTRT?

-R is about what objects ls visits; -d is about what it prints when it
visits them.  -Rd, then, should visit every object in the tree below
each argument, printing the same information about each of them
(rather than treating directories specially).

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