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Subject:  Re: ls output still truncated
Date:  Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:52:44 -0500
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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.
> 
> Just my $0.02,
> Gary
> 

I haven't done this sort of thing in about 10 years, but that was
actually my next thought too.


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