svn commit: r284198 - head/bin/ls

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Sat Jun 13 02:49:24 UTC 2015


On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 08:43:09PM -0400, Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 01:27:39 +0000 (UTC)
> Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > Author: marcel
> > Date: Wed Jun 10 01:27:38 2015
> > New Revision: 284198
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/284198
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Convert ls(1) to use libxo(3).
> >   
> >   Obtained from:	Phil Shafer <phil at juniper.net>
> >   Sponsored by:	Juniper Networks, Inc.
> > 
> <SKIP>
> 
> This broke all code that pipes output of the ls command to pipeline,
> such as 'ls | wc -l'. ls never exits and never output anything. Is
> there any purpose to libxo other than breaking stuff, which it achieves
> so splendidly?
> 

-1 for libxo, which also makes code almost unreadable.

-- 
Steve


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