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Strange behaviour of ls listing of directories


Hi

I just recently discovered the following behaviour of ls:
When I type in ls in the same directory a couple of times, sometimes the first ls call shows
some of the directories with 0 bytes and in the next calls with an actual byte number as you
can see below.

Anybody else seeing this ?
This is the same on NT or W2K, with netsec enabled ot ntea enabled.

vzell:/c> type ll
ll is aliased to `ls -lat --show-control-chars'
vzell:/c> ll
ls: pagefile.sys: Permission denied
total 489
drwxr-xr-x    7 vzell    admin           0 May 23 12:45 tmp/             <-- 0 Bytes
drwxr-xr-x    8 vzell    admin           0 May 23 11:59 temp/            <-- 0 Bytes
drwxr-xr-x   28 vzell    admin       24576 May 21 01:05 WINNT/
-rw-r--r--    1 vzell    admin      276344 May 20 19:08 Tree.Far
drwxr-xr-x   20 vzell    admin        4096 May 16 11:36 Programme/
drwxr-xr-x   13 vzell    admin        4096 May 16 11:36 oracle/
drwxr-xr-x   10 vzell    admin        4096 Feb 14 17:56 gnu/
drwxr-xr-x    4 vzell    admin           0 Jun 13  2001 xircom/
drwxr-xr-x    2 vzell    admin           0 Jun  4  2001 bin/             <-- 0 Bytes
drwxr-xr-x    3 vzell    admin           0 Dec 29  2000 RECYCLER/
drwxr-xr-x    9 vzell    admin           0 Nov 29  2000 MSOffice/
-r--r--r--    1 vzell    admin       26816 Jun 28  2000 NTDETECT.COM
-r--r--r--    1 vzell    admin      158160 Jun 28  2000 ntldr
-r--r--r--    1 vzell    admin         289 Jun 28  2000 boot.ini
drwxr-xr-x    2 vzell    admin           0 Jun 28  2000 RECYCLED/
-rwxr-xr-x    1 vzell    admin           0 Jun 27  2000 AUTOEXEC.BAT*
-rw-r--r--    1 vzell    admin           0 Jun 27  2000 CONFIG.SYS
-r--r--r--    1 vzell    admin           0 Jun 27  2000 IO.SYS
-r--r--r--    1 vzell    admin           0 Jun 27  2000 MSDOS.SYS
vzell:/c> ll
ls: pagefile.sys: Permission denied
total 521
drwxr-xr-x    7 vzell    admin       12288 May 23 12:45 tmp/            <-- xxx Bytes
drwxr-xr-x    8 vzell    admin       12288 May 23 11:59 temp/           <-- xxx Bytes
drwxr-xr-x   28 vzell    admin       24576 May 21 01:05 WINNT/
-rw-r--r--    1 vzell    admin      276344 May 20 19:08 Tree.Far
drwxr-xr-x   20 vzell    admin        4096 May 16 11:36 Programme/
drwxr-xr-x   13 vzell    admin        4096 May 16 11:36 oracle/
drwxr-xr-x   10 vzell    admin        4096 Feb 14 17:56 gnu/
drwxr-xr-x    4 vzell    admin           0 Jun 13  2001 xircom/         <-- 0 Bytes even so there are files in the directory
drwxr-xr-x    2 vzell    admin        4096 Jun  4  2001 bin/            <-- xxx Bytes
drwxr-xr-x    3 vzell    admin           0 Dec 29  2000 RECYCLER/
drwxr-xr-x    9 vzell    admin        4096 Nov 29  2000 MSOffice/
-r--r--r--    1 vzell    admin       26816 Jun 28  2000 NTDETECT.COM
-r--r--r--    1 vzell    admin      158160 Jun 28  2000 ntldr
-r--r--r--    1 vzell    admin         289 Jun 28  2000 boot.ini
drwxr-xr-x    2 vzell    admin           0 Jun 28  2000 RECYCLED/
-rwxr-xr-x    1 vzell    admin           0 Jun 27  2000 AUTOEXEC.BAT*
-rw-r--r--    1 vzell    admin           0 Jun 27  2000 CONFIG.SYS
-r--r--r--    1 vzell    admin           0 Jun 27  2000 IO.SYS
-r--r--r--    1 vzell    admin           0 Jun 27  2000 MSDOS.SYS

Ciao
  Volker


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