Bug 17924

Summary: ld -lF bug
Product: Base System Reporter: alex <alex>
Component: binAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 5.0-CURRENT   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description alex 2000-04-11 12:10:02 UTC 
ls -lF adds two slashes at the end of a directory:

alex:~ $ ls -dlF /
drwxr-xr-x  22 root  wheel  1024  4 Apr 22:57 //

Fix: 

This is only a bug report, since I really have no time to fix it now.
this is kinda trivial to fix, so someone else might want to do it.

I'll do in three weeks, if noone else did it until then.

Alex
How-To-Repeat: 
see above.
Comment 1 alex 2000-04-11 13:30:13 UTC 
Thus spake Anatoly Vorobey (mellon@pobox.com):

> > ls -lF adds two slashes at the end of a directory:
> I don't know that this is a bug. '/' is the name of the "file",
> and the other '/' is the mode char. To "fix" this, one would have
> to special-case the root directory.

No. It's not a special case. it's a bug:

alex:~ $ ls -ldF Mail
drwx------  8 alex  alex  512 11 Apr 12:32 Mail/
alex:~ $ ls -ldF Mail/
drwx------  8 alex  alex  512 11 Apr 12:32 Mail//

Alex

-- 
I need a new ~/.sig.
Comment 2 Sheldon Hearn freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-04-11 14:00:32 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

I can't find another UNIX flavour that _doesn't_ show the root 
directory (/) as "//" when asked to list it with a type 
indicator (also /).  This isn't a bug at all.  Have a look at 
the manual page for ls(1), particularly its description of the 
-F flag.