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Re: ls --color (strange display)
- From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: "Philippe Bastiani" <philippe dot bastiani at wanadoo dot fr>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 01:40:31 -0400
- Subject: Re: ls --color (strange display)
- References: <bkcrl1$jpj$1@sea.gmane.org><bkctsc$ptm$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 01:30 AM 9/19/2003, Philippe Bastiani you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>> My WAG is that with --color, ls is opening files to look at the first
>> few bytes in an effort to determine what type of file it is. You do not
>> have permissions to open C:/hiberfil.sys nor c:/pagefile.sys so it fails.
>
>
>Yes, these 2 files are unreadable!
Correct. That's Windows.
>But, IMHO, 'ls' should not fails, and
>displays the unreadable files without color!
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC
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