Re: [RFC] File flags handling - proposal for API.

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Sun, 27 Jun 1999 10:20:26 -0700 (PDT)

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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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