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On Wed, 20 May 2009, Scott Klement wrote:
So it's your position that the fact that ls doesn't work the same as
Linux should be regarded as a bug and reported to IBM as such? Despite
that there's a really easy way to solve the problem that will work on i
and all Unix systems?
I won't speak for Hans, but let me give my own opinion (and you make a
very valid point about Windows having dominant market share yet it
shouldn't be considered the standard in every situation). In my opinion,
users expect the -S option of ls to sort by size and that it doesn't on i
is a bug. Not a bug in the technical sense that it isn't working as
designed, but a bug in the sense that it doesn't work as the users expect.
I think that within the set of *nix users this expectation is not
unreasonable and is due to the prevalence of the GNU utils. While you
can't universally apply the rule of "most common usage" I think this is a
time when doing so would be sensible. Which is most useful: having a
very unique behaviour of showing the CCSID or following what most systems
do and sorting by size? Stated another way, are most users going to want
to see the CCSID or to sort by size? I think due to the prevalence of GNU
most users are going to want -S to sort by size and thus IBM should change
it.
But hey, if I was completely consistent in applying all my logic then
x5250 would have a File menu, wouldn't it? ;)
James Rich
if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on
the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond
when you're done reading them :)
- Paul Davis on ardour-dev
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