John Richer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The ls command prints no output and does not return when involved in a > directory containing about 70,000 files. ... > If I turn color off, all is well (ls --color=never) > > Version Info: > > ls (GNU fileutils) 4.0p > Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie. > > System: RH Linux 7.1
Thanks for the report. A lot has changed since fileutils-4.0p. Would you please see if you can reproduce the problem using the version of ls from fileutils-4.1.9? ftp://linux-rep.fnal.gov/pub/mirrors/gnu/alpha/fileutils/fileutils-4.1.9.tar.bz2 ftp://linux-rep.fnal.gov/pub/mirrors/gnu/alpha/fileutils/fileutils-4.1.9.tar.gz I couldn't reproduce the problem using these commands, and starting in an empty directory on an ext3 file system and running linux-2.4.18: seq 80000|xargs touch ls --color=tty If you *can* reproduce the failure, please send me the list of file names and their types. _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
