Interestingly, it looks like the `file == Path::new("/")` bit was basically unchanged from when it was introduced... 12 (!) years ago [0] (though back then it was `filename == "/"`). The change from comparing a filename to a path was part of a change made 8 months ago to handle non-UTF-8 filenames.

> That's not an API problem, the problem is that whoever wrote that is uniquely unqualified to be working on this project.

To be fair, uutils started out with far smaller ambitions. It was originally intended to be a way to learn Rust.

[0]: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/commit/7abc6c007af75504f...