Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 19 Aug 2000 18:26:36 +0000 From ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de Sat Aug 19 13:26:36 2000 Return-path: Received: from iris1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de [::ffff:129.69.118.2] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 13QDKG-0001Ws-00; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 13:26:36 -0500 Received: from rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.118.42]) by iris1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA22433 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 20:26:35 +0200 (MDT) Received: from ica2_ts by rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13QDKE-0006y6-00 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 20:26:34 +0200 Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 20:26:34 +0200 From: Thiemo Seufer To: submit@bugs.debian.org Subject: ls, dir, vdir should be hardlinked together Message-ID: <20000819202634.A25753@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i Delivered-To: submit@bugs.debian.org Package: fileutils Version: 4.0l-8 Severity: wishlist ls, dir and vdir are currently three separate binaries created from the same code (except of three simple header files). A more elegant way would be to hardlink these to the same binary which changes it's default operation by checking argv[0]. regards, Thiemo