bug#21325: ls : feature request --width=zero

[Pádraig Brady]

On 20/10/15 17:31, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> If a limit, then 0 naturally implies no limit. If a length, then 0 is 
>> meaningless.
> 
> It's not meaningless. It means length 0. Length -1 would be meaningless.
> 
> That being said, I'm tired of fighting this issue, so please feel free to go 
> ahead and have 0 mean infinity to the user.

Yes it's not ideal. The main reason I'm going with -w0 is for
consistency with base64 and sed etc.

> But surely this can be done better 
> than to have SIZE_MAX mean infinity internally. Just use 0 to mean infinity; 
> that's less confusing, if that's what 0 means externally. In other words, use 
> SIZE_MAX to stand only for itself, and use 0 to stand for infinity.

Updated patch attached.

thanks,
Pádraig.

ls-w0.patch
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