From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] union directories
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Date: Mon,  3 Mar 2003 10:40:23 -0700
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 rog@vitanuova.com wrote:

> 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.

Actually I have had more Unix-oriented folks ask me if in a union ls 
there could be an option, per-file, to display the binding for that file 
when there is more than one. 

I got real complaints from people about seeing multiple files with the 
same name on an ls. 

Not that we want to put whiteouts in there, however.

ron