Re: ls-lisp and remote files

[Lars Hansen]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> I think we should simply switch to user-names, but if compatibility
> is a problem, we can just provide an additional argument to select
> between the two behaviors.
Just switching to names rather than numbers for user id and group id 
sounds appealing to me -- then we wouldn't have to introduce an 
additional parameter to file-attributes and directory-files-and-attributes.

What is most important here, simplicity or compatibility?