X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Cesar Strauss Subject: Re: ls output still truncated Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:48:24 -0200 Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Chuck wrote: > Folks I could really use some help here. I still cannot get the ls > command to work reliably. It worked for years and about two weeks ago > started sputtering. I have completely unstalled all cygwin packages, > deleted the directories, and reinstalled from scratch. Even just > installing the bare mimimum packages and running a bash shell without X > or even a .profile, ls still fails to output anything 50% of the time. > > One other observation I've made is there's a similar program named > "dir.exe" in the /usr/bin directory. It seems to do pretty much the same > thing as ls. In fact the file sizes and timestamps are even the same. It > works every time. I could just alias ls=/usr/bin/dir but that seems more > like a work-around rather than fixing the real problem. Can anyone help > with this? TIA > > Interesting fact that dir.exe works and ls.exe does not. Inspecting the source, the one and only difference between the two is: -- ls-ls.c begin -- #include "ls.h" int ls_mode = LS_LS; -- ls-ls.c end -- -- ls-dir.c begin -- #include "ls.h" int ls_mode = LS_MULTI_COL; -- ls-dir.c end -- For all purposes, they should behave exactly the same, except for the output format. It's a shot in the dark, but could you try: 1) Copy ls.exe to myls.exe and run it as myls.exe. Does it still fails? 2) Does ls -l also fails? 3) Does vdir.exe fails? Do you have antivirus or webcam software running? They are known for causing random problems in Cygwin apps. Cesar -- 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/