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Subject: Re: Still a problem with 'ls' in root, with Cygwin 1.7.11-1
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On Mar  7 12:28, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
> For example:
> --
> [/]
> [lr AT GW2] PID=3508 #jobs=0  2012-03-07, 12:18:57
> $ pwd
> /
> 
> [/]
> [lr AT GW2] PID=3508 #jobs=0  2012-03-07, 12:19:36
> $ ls -l
> ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory
> total 2008
> drwxrwx---+ 1 lr root 0 Jan 10 23:10 _C
> drwxrwx---+ 1 lr root 0 Mar  6 23:39 _root_files
> drwxrwx---+ 1 lr root 0 Mar  6 18:22 bin
> drwxrwxr-x+ 1 lr root 0 Sep 22 14:07 dev
> drwxrwxr-x+ 1 lr root 0 Mar  6 18:25 etc
> drwxrwx---+ 1 lr root 0 May 19  2011 home
> drwxrwxr-x+ 1 lr root 0 Mar  6 18:12 lib
> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 lr root 0 Oct 10 18:28 local
> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 lr root 0 May 19  2011 opt
> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 lr root 0 May 19  2011 sbin
> drwx------+ 1 lr root 0 Jul  9  2009 srv
> drwxrwxrwt+ 1 lr root 0 Mar  7 12:19 tmp
> drwxrwx---+ 1 lr root 0 Mar  5 22:18 usr
> drwxrwxrwt+ 1 lr root 0 Dec 21 10:59 var
> dr-xr-xr-x  1 lr None 0 Mar  7 12:19 z
> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 lr root 0 Mar 31  2010 zup

This is obviously not a generic problem.  It works for me and, probably,
for most others.  What are the actual permissions?  Does `stat .' work?
If not, what does strace show?

Corinna

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