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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:02:51 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: David Dindorp <ddi AT dubex DOT dk>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: cygwin, hmm throw me a bone..
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On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 07:26:36PM +0100, David Dindorp wrote:
>Hi Christopher;
>
>If you could answer a quick question for me, I'd be very happy..
>
>I'm having a problem with a bunch of scripts and programs running under
>cygwin.
>After upgrading cygwin to the newest version (as of today), "ls" seems
>to put the console in a deadlock.
>
>I'm not sure if you want or need this problem, so I'd like to ask you:
>
>1. Where do I take this problem? :)
>or,
>
>2. Where do I download an older version of cygwin (which seems to work
>fine).
>(I need to download it again because I need some packages that I don't
>have
>lying around, unfortunately).
>
>
>If you'd like to help out yourself, which I in no way expect you to,
>here's what happens:
>
>'ls -l' hangs the console (running bash) when cwd is '/cygdrive/c'.
>ls -l when cwd is '/' doesn't crash anything.
>Same happens with a bunch of other directories.
>
>The output from the two commands are identical (it's the same
>directory),
>except that the 'ls -l /' one says
>
>'Administrator' / 'mkpasswd' as user/group, the other says
>'???????' / '???????'..
>
>If you'd like any other information or anything at all, I'd be happy to
>provide you with it.
>
>
>My apologies if you consider it rude mailing you with this, but I don't
>have a clue where to take it and you were my best bet :-)
>
>Regards,
>--David
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