From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh@cygwin.com>
To: "Philippe Bastiani" <philippe.bastiani@wanadoo.fr>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: ls --color (strange display)
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 06:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030919013833.01f97210@127.0.0.1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bke510$dgf$1@sea.gmane.org>
At 01:30 AM 9/19/2003, Philippe Bastiani you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>> My WAG is that with --color, ls is opening files to look at the first
>> few bytes in an effort to determine what type of file it is. You do not
>> have permissions to open C:/hiberfil.sys nor c:/pagefile.sys so it fails.
>
>
>Yes, these 2 files are unreadable!
Correct. That's Windows.
>But, IMHO, 'ls' should not fails, and
>displays the unreadable files without color!
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-19 5:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-18 17:58 Philippe Bastiani
2003-09-18 19:33 ` Andrew DeFaria
2003-09-19 5:46 ` Philippe Bastiani
2003-09-19 6:48 ` Larry Hall [this message]
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