Re: nodes have authors

[Niels Möller]

tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:

> Normally (without special flags) you should always follow the
> translator, and you would never see the => syntax.

What is "special"? ls normally follows symlinks silently, but ls -F
and ls -l shows some information about symlinks. Are these particular
flags special enough?

I think it will be easier to understand the system if symlinks and
translators are treated in the same way by programs walking the file
system, in the absence of any hurd-specific flags.

By the way, what's a good "ls -F"-indicator character for translators?
`&' (process), `!' (action), or `?' (oddity)? Perhaps active and
passive translators should be displayed differently.

/Niels