From: "Philippe Bastiani" <philippe.bastiani@wanadoo.fr>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: ls --color (strange display)
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 05:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bke510$dgf$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bkctsc$ptm$1@sea.gmane.org>
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!
a+
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Philippe
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-19 5:42 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 [this message]
2003-09-19 6:48 ` Larry Hall
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