Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Jun 1999 10:20:26 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] File flags handling - proposal for API. |
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On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > You change fundamental things like the behaviour of "more *" when people want > to read the files in a directory known the directories will just give > "is a directory" messages. Now they will give files from directories below.
Indeed.
I never claimed that it wouldn't change behaviour. If it didn't change behaviour it wouldn't be worth even talking about.
I'm just claiming that the changed behaviour can potentially be a lot better than the old one ;)
Linus
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