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Re: Strange behaviour of ls listing of directories
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: jim dot george at blueyonder dot co dot uk, "Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr dot Volker dot Zell at oracle dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 13:23:58 -0400
- Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of ls listing of directories
- References: <kv661dx0pq.fsf@vzell.de.oracle.com>
At 03:57 AM 5/26/2002, Jim.George wrote:
>On Fri, 24 May 2002, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
><snip>
> > 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
> >
>Do you get the same behaviour with 'ls -lat'?
>
>I got the same as yourself with the --show-control-chars but not with ls
>-lat.
No, there's more to it than that, at least based on what I see. I get the
same results as Volker. It doesn't matter what flags I give ls (in addition
to "-l" that is). I only have "ntsec" set. Perhaps you tried
"--show-control-chars" the first time in a directory and "-lat" after that?
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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