X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 13:19:07 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ls displays nothing - 3/29 snapshot Message-ID: <20060403171907.GB11520@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <200604021937.k32JbMHL000678@tigris.pounder.sol.net> <20060402204331.GA8710@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <200604022059.k32KxqtK001046@tigris.pounder.sol.net> <200604030207.k3327TdA002266@tigris.pounder.sol.net> <20060403031812.GA11935@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <200604031552.k33Fq2Dt007522@tigris.pounder.sol.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200604031552.k33Fq2Dt007522@tigris.pounder.sol.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 10:52:01AM -0500, Tom Rodman wrote: >Then, I ran: > > C:\>c:\aut\cyg\bin\strace -o/tmp/strace.out /bin/bash > bash-3.00$ exec /bin/ls -l /etc/passwd The strace shows that /bin/ls is a shell script. I suspect that's at least part of your problem. Maybe you have both a /bin/ls and a /bin/ls.exe? > 513 13523662 [main] bash 5608 spawn_guts: priority class 32 > 240 13523902 [main] bash 5608 fhandler_console::need_invisible: invisible_console 0 > 144 13524046 [main] bash 5608 spawn_guts: null_app_name 0 (c:\aut\cyg\bin\sh.exe, c:\aut\cyg\bin\sh.exe /bin/ls -l /etc/passwd) cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/