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Subject: Re: [9fans] union directories
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Date: Mon,  3 Mar 2003 13:18:17 +0000
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> (Bind -bc 9 9 is like:
> 
> 	bind 9 9 
> 	bind -bc 9 9
> 
> hence everything appears twice.)

is there a good reason why ls doesn't eliminate duplicates when
showing union directories?

occasionally it might be useful, but as the default behaviour?

come to that, it would be nice if ls -l used a stable sorting
algorithm so that it was possible to tell which file attributes were
likely to correspond to the file that would be opened under a
particular name.

i did both of these things in inferno, with no obvious adverse
consequences.