Back out spaces to TABs replace removing for COLORLS

Rewrite corresponding comment to say what happens in reality with oxtabs
and current terminal column.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bin/ls/print.c b/bin/ls/print.c
index 596825c7d7d8..ec4deb519a00 100644
--- a/bin/ls/print.c
+++ b/bin/ls/print.c
@@ -241,6 +241,19 @@ printcol(dp)
 			    dp->s_block);
 			if ((base += numrows) >= num)
 				break;
+#ifdef COLORLS
+			/*
+			 * We can't put tabs and color sequences together:
+			 * column number will be incremented incorrectly
+			 * for "stty oxtabs" mode.
+			 */
+			if (f_color)
+				while ((cnt = (chcnt + 1)) <= endcol) {
+					(void)putchar(' ');
+					chcnt = cnt;
+				}
+			else
+#endif
 			while ((cnt = ((chcnt + tabwidth) & ~(tabwidth - 1)))
 			    <= endcol){
 				(void)putchar(f_notabs ? ' ' : '\t');