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Re: Strange behaviour of ls listing of directories
- From: "Jim.George" <jim dot george at blueyonder dot co dot uk>
- To: "Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr dot Volker dot Zell at oracle dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 08:57:05 +0100
- Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of ls listing of directories
- Reply-to: jim dot george at blueyonder dot co dot uk
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.
Jim
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