Re: Coreutils enhancement: ls: add colorization of mountpoints

[Dragan Simic]

On 2023-10-18 07:57, Parke wrote:
> > On 10/17/23 12:05, Parke wrote:
> > > If bind mounts get their own st_dev device id (and they probably do?),
> > > then they would be colored the same as mountpoints.  In my opinion,
> > > this is expected and desired.
> >
> > They do not, but if it's a bind mount from a different filesystem you 
> > would
> > color it as a mount point, and if it's a bind mount from elsewhere 
> > within the
> > same filesystem you would not, introducing more inconsistent behavior.
>
> Interesting.

Quite frankly, as the person who proposes a new feature to be 
introduced, which also isn't straightforward, you should be doing more 
research yourself.  Please, don't get me wrong, I'm just trying to help 
by describing the usual way new features are proposed.

> > and under that implementation
> > wouldn't -L  make symlinks show up as mount points?
>
> Without additional checking (i.e. additional calls to stat() and/or
> lstat(), and maybe realpath()), a symlink to a path on a different
> filesystem would appear as a mountpoint.
>
> One option would be to disable all colorization of mountpoints when -L
> is specified.  (More inconsistent behavior?)

Just as you described, that would introduce inconsistent behavior and 
would simply be unacceptable.