than having the code test for all of the other types first.
Hoist the set-uid/gid-testing code "up" into this new block.
Classify any other type of file (e.g., S_TYPEISSHM, etc.) as
C_ORPHAN, not as C_FILE.
* doc/coreutils.texi (What information is listed): Mention that missing
pieces of information are marked with "?". From Paul Eggert.
2006-07-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* src/ls.c (DT_INIT): Remove. All uses removed.
(enum filetype): Use an ordinary enum rather than trying to keep
the values in sync with DT_FIFO etc. That way, we don't have
to make special assumptions about them. All uses changed.
(whiteout): New constant member of enum filetype.
(filetype_letter): New constant, for use with enum filetype.
(FILETYPE_INDICATORS): New initializer list.
(print_dir): Add case for DT_WHT.
(gobble_file): If stat fails, don't discard information from
readdir; instead, preserve it so it can be printed.
(print_long_format): Fall back on readdir result if stat info
is not available. Use "?" to denote each unknown mode char,
instead of an overall "?", since we now know some of the mode
typically.
(print_type_indicator): Now that MODE isn't necessarily
useful, guard all uses.
Now that two blocks in the type-checking tree can set "type = C_FILE",
move the suffix-handling code out and down.
* src/ls.c (print_long_format): Be careful to increment P by the
appropriate amount, even when inode_number_width and nlink_width
are zero.
* tests/ls/stat-failed: Test for the above.
non-command-line file provokes an exit status of 1, not 0.
Say "cannot access" rather than "cannot stat".
* tests/ls/stat-failed: New file/test, for the above.
* tests/ls/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add stat-failed.
coreutils-selinux.patch. From Ulrich Drepper.
This makes it so files not mentioned on the command line (e.g.,
names read from a directory that *is* mentioned on the command
line) for which stat fails are still listed. With --color,
such files are colored just like ORPHANs (aka dangling symlinks).
stat for a symlink, even though it wasn't always needed.
In some cases, that unnecessary stat would cause ls to fail.
* src/ls.c (gobble_file): Don't treat symlinks specially (in
requiring a stat syscall). Remove the offending exclusion.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
* tests/ls/stat-dtype: New file/test, for the above fix.
Also exercises the new df feature, below.
file system is processed. This makes it easy to test whether
a specified directory is on a file system of a given type or types.
Otherwise, applications would have had to parse df's output.
E.g., is "." either ext3 or reiserfs: df -t ext3 -t reiserfs .
rather than like --indicator-style=file-type.
(FILE_TYPE_INDICATOR_OPTION): New enum member.
(long_options): Map "file-type" to FILE_TYPE_INDICATOR_OPTION,
not to 'p'.
(decode_switches): Handle new case: FILE_TYPE_INDICATOR_OPTION.
Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert