X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45DB5825.3030002@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:20:53 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061221 Fedora/1.5.0.9-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: ls output still truncated References: <20070220200932 DOT GB20186 AT suncomp2 DOT spk DOT agilent DOT com> In-Reply-To: <20070220200932.GB20186@suncomp2.spk.agilent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2007-02-20, 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. > > At this point, I'd be inclined to get the source for ls, build a > version with debugging enabled, and use gdb. I've never used gdb > under Cygwin, so there may be some reason it isn't as useful under > Cygwin as it is under, say, Linux. In that case, you could add a > few printfs to see what's happening. > There's no great difference between gdb on Cygwin vs Linux. Doing some debugging locally is by far the best way to gain some insight as to what's going on. Good advice. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/