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From: dada@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at
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To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: ls -W option unimplemented
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>Number:         7417
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       ls -W option unimplemented
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jul 27 11:30:01 PDT 1998
>Closed-Date:    Wed Sep 16 17:23:17 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:  Wed Sep 16 17:24:09 PDT 1998
>Originator:     Martin Kammerhofer
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Graz University of Technology
>Environment:
>Description:
  ls(1)'s man page says:
    "-W      Display whiteouts when scanning directories."
  It's unclear what "-W" should do.
  Option -W is not recognized.
>How-To-Repeat:

  ls -W
>Fix:
	
  a) Implement and (better) document -W
  or
  b) Remove confusing reference to -W option from ls(1) manpage

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended 
State-Changed-By: phk 
State-Changed-When: Tue Jul 28 02:13:49 PDT 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
whiteouts are "pasted over" files, see unionfs. 

awaiting patch & committer 

From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Co=EFdan?=  =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc:  Subject: Re: bin/7417
Date: 17 Sep 1998 01:50:10 +0200

 It's not that simple. Having RTFS, it looks to me like 'ls -W' doesn't
 work on -stable simply because -stable's version of the fts library
 doesn't know about whiteout. The alternatives are either to fix
 -stable's fts library, or to undocument the -W option. It seems to me
 that the latter is TRT because I have a hunch that the description of
 the -W switch in the man page was MFCed by mistake during a pre-
 release MFC run. Since unionfs doesn't work anyway (and isn't likely
 to get fixed any time soon), I see no point in keeping this PR open.
 
 DES
 -- 
 Dag-Erling Smrgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no
State-Changed-From-To: suspended->closed 
State-Changed-By: des 
State-Changed-When: Wed Sep 16 17:23:17 PDT 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
-W option removed from man page. 
>Unformatted:
