"Theo de Raadt":

> 2) With very long names, it truncates the end of the path. This is less useful
> information.  Imagine a copy operation with multiple files being transferred,
> one of them is huge and surprisingly long, but you cannot identify which one
> because all the truncated long paths are the same.
> 
> 3) (old) scp and rsync show the path only component only.

Oh, I hadn't even realized that this affects the way _all_ source
file paths are displayed, whether remote or local, whether originally
specified with absolute or relative path.

Path width is limited to 44 characters in a normal 80-char terminal.

$ echo -n /usr/ports/distfiles/ |wc      
       0       1      21
$ echo -n /usr/ports/logs/amd64/paths/ |wc 
       0       1      28

> So.... I think the path-component-only scheme is better, and this should 
> change.

Yes, please.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          na...@mips.inka.de

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