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Strange behaviour of ls listing of directories
- From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr dot Volker dot Zell at oracle dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 13:08:17 +0200
- Subject: 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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