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bug#25388: Bug in ls, kills existing scripts reading "ls" -1 as input


From: Eric Blake
Subject: bug#25388: Bug in ls, kills existing scripts reading "ls" -1 as input
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 14:52:17 -0600
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On 01/09/2017 02:39 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
> reopen 25388
> thanks
> 
> It's still a bug as it goes against adding new behaviors that
> generate different output based on destination = tty or not.

This is NOT adding a new behavior that is based on isatty() checks.  The
output may differ, but there were no new isatty() checks added,
therefore the new behavior is NOT a violation of GNU's stance that
program output should not differ based solely on whether stdout is a tty.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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