On Sat, 04 Jul 2020 20:59:08 +0200, Richard Ipsum wrote:
> Output of ls -R between OpenBSD and GNU coreutils seems to differ,
> OpenBSD ls -R will apparently list "hidden" directories like .git,
> whereas GNU coreutils will not, is this expected behaviour or a bug?
I think this is actually a bug. Historic behavior is to not descend
into directories that begin with a '.'. Our existing ls code looks
like it is written to support that behavior but is missing one
thing.
- todd
Index: bin/ls/ls.c
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RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/ls/ls.c,v
retrieving revision 1.51
diff -u -p -u -r1.51 ls.c
--- bin/ls/ls.c 13 Sep 2018 15:23:32 -0000 1.51
+++ bin/ls/ls.c 4 Jul 2020 20:13:39 -0000
@@ -369,8 +369,11 @@ traverse(int argc, char *argv[], int opt
switch (p->fts_info) {
case FTS_D:
if (p->fts_name[0] == '.' &&
- p->fts_level != FTS_ROOTLEVEL && !f_listdot)
+ p->fts_level != FTS_ROOTLEVEL && !f_listdot) {
+ if (fts_set(ftsp, p, FTS_SKIP))
+ err(1, "%s", p->fts_path);
break;
+ }
/*
* If already output something, put out a newline as
