Cesar Strauss wrote: > 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. >> >> One other observation I've made is there's a similar program named >> "dir.exe" in the /usr/bin directory. It seems to do pretty much the same >> thing as ls. In fact the file sizes and timestamps are even the same. It >> works every time. I could just alias ls=/usr/bin/dir but that seems more >> like a work-around rather than fixing the real problem. Can anyone help >> with this? TIA >> >> > > Interesting fact that dir.exe works and ls.exe does not. Inspecting the > source, the one and only difference between the two is: > > -- ls-ls.c begin -- > #include "ls.h" > int ls_mode = LS_LS; > -- ls-ls.c end -- > > -- ls-dir.c begin -- > #include "ls.h" > int ls_mode = LS_MULTI_COL; > -- ls-dir.c end -- > > For all purposes, they should behave exactly the same, except for the > output format. > > It's a shot in the dark, but could you try: > 1) Copy ls.exe to myls.exe and run it as myls.exe. Does it still fails? > 2) Does ls -l also fails? > 3) Does vdir.exe fails? > > Do you have antivirus or webcam software running? They are known for > causing random problems in Cygwin apps. > > Cesar > >
No webcam software. I have av software but it's the same av software that's been running for 2 years and never caused a problem before - Symantec 10.0.2.2002. I can't remove it. It's a corporate PC and it's against corporate policy to remove it. I created myls as you said and can not get it to fail. You may be on to something! I just ran myls 30 times in a row on the one directory that ls chokes on most often - /cygdrive. It didn't fail once. Ls on the other hand fails almost 50% of the time. -- 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/
