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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 16:26:37 -0400
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
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To: "linda w (cyg)" <cygwin AT tlinx DOT org>
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Subject: Re: ls -l /c/pagefile.sys - not found
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linda w (cyg) wrote:
> Why can't I see the size or any information about my pagefile when under
> cygwin?
> 
> To find out the size I have to use explorer or cmd.exe+dir to find
> out the size of my pagefile, -- because ls -l just says
> pagefile.sys can't be found.  Always thought that a bit weird --
> whenever I do anything that scans for all files including in the root
> dir, I get the 'pagefile.sys' messages not found - like if I do a
> ls -l /cygdrive/c -- I'll get the error message and no listing or entry
> for pagefile.sys even though it is there.

This file is locked by Windows.  I'm sure one could argue that the
current behavior/message is not optimal.  Of course, the best argument
would be a patch. ;-)



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