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Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 08:57:05 +0100
From: "Jim.George" <jim DOT george AT blueyonder DOT co DOT uk>
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To: "Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr DOT Volker DOT Zell AT oracle DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of ls listing of directories
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On Fri, 24 May 2002, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:

> Hi
>
> I just recently discovered the following behaviour of ls:
> When I type in ls in the same directory a couple of times, sometimes the first ls call shows
> some of the directories with 0 bytes and in the next calls with an actual byte number as you
> can see below.
>
> Anybody else seeing this ?
> This is the same on NT or W2K, with netsec enabled ot ntea enabled.
>
<snip>
> drwxr-xr-x    4 vzell    admin           0 Jun 13  2001 xircom/
<-- 0 Bytes even so there are files in the directory
> drwxr-xr-x    2 vzell    admin        4096 Jun  4  2001 bin/            <-- xxx Bytes
> drwxr-xr-x    3 vzell    admin           0 Dec 29  2000 RECYCLER/
> drwxr-xr-x    9 vzell    admin        4096 Nov 29  2000 MSOffice/
> -r--r--r--    1 vzell    admin       26816 Jun 28  2000 NTDETECT.COM
> -r--r--r--    1 vzell    admin      158160 Jun 28  2000 ntldr
> -r--r--r--    1 vzell    admin         289 Jun 28  2000 boot.ini
> drwxr-xr-x    2 vzell    admin           0 Jun 28  2000 RECYCLED/
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 vzell    admin           0 Jun 27  2000 AUTOEXEC.BAT*
> -rw-r--r--    1 vzell    admin           0 Jun 27  2000 CONFIG.SYS
> -r--r--r--    1 vzell    admin           0 Jun 27  2000 IO.SYS
> -r--r--r--    1 vzell    admin           0 Jun 27  2000 MSDOS.SYS
>
> Ciao
>   Volker
>
Do you get the same behaviour with 'ls -lat'?

I got the same as yourself with the --show-control-chars but not with ls
-lat.


Jim



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