ls --color (strange display)

ls --color (strange display)

[Philippe Bastiani]

Hi,

When i had the --color option to the 'ls c:' command line, i obtain the 2
followings lines:
ls: c:/hiberfil.sys: No such file or directory
ls: c:/pagefile.sys: No such file or directory

Note: c:/hiberfil.sys & c:/pagefile.sys are 2 existing files... displayed
when i remove this option!

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Re: ls --color (strange display)

[Andrew DeFaria]

Philippe Bastiani wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When i had the --color option to the 'ls c:' command line, i obtain the 2
> followings lines:
> ls: c:/hiberfil.sys: No such file or directory
> ls: c:/pagefile.sys: No such file or directory
>
> Note: c:/hiberfil.sys & c:/pagefile.sys are 2 existing files... displayed
> when i remove this option!

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.
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Re: ls --color (strange display)

[Philippe Bastiani]

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! But, IMHO, 'ls' should not fails, and
displays the unreadable files without color!

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Re: ls --color (strange display)

[Larry Hall]

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!


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