From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] ls, rc question -- proposed change to rc/glob.c From: rog@vitanuova.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:28:08 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3d5d16d8-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > i couldn't traverse the hierarchy at all. you could walk into it, which is all most things do operationally... ls is nice ("look, here's a union directory and this is what's in it") but i reckon almost none of the tools that are used by the system in its day to day running actually read union directories. union directory reading is most useful interactively. most non-trivial uses require elimination of duplicates. for example, even du(1) gets things wrong, i now realise. > >> rm > >> removes all entries, including hidden ones > > it did years ago, but i don't think it does now. it does.