From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 References: AAQQkbBAAAgDAaTsLseeeKUMOBBGyNdf Message-ID: <20040408T121029Z_FFB700000000@mail2.cu-portland.edu> From: Ben Huntsman Subject: Re: [9fans] ports performance To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 12:10:29 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 564f5e08-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 It's nice and fun to be able to run Plan 9's ls on other systems, but = really quite useless, when there's already an ls on every unix. >>> Rob Pike 4/8/2004 11:57:43 AM >>> because of the way ls works on plan 9, a simple port to unix makes every ls as expensive as ls -l. -rob