Re: ls bug?

[Jim Meyering]

Good.
I'm letting the list know, too.

"David Favro" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 00:19:12 +0200, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the report.

BTW, Tim, here's a link to it:
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs/2459

>> Would you please see if you can reproduce the problem
>> using ls built from these unmodified sources?
>>
>>   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.gz
>>   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2
>>
>> I'm pretty sure the version that comes with RH/Fedora includes
>> significant patches.
>
> You are right, that fixed it.  I hadn't tried building it since
> Fedora's  version number matched the latest from your source, and it
> seems unusual  for an O/S distribution to make mods to such a
> "generic" utility.  I guess  I'll report it to Fedora.  Thanks again.