On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 17:15 -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > Mark Haney wrote: > > And yes /bin/ls --color=tty hangs. In fact, I changed it to color=auto > > and THAT hangs as well. I changed the ls alias to be just 'ls' and that > > works fine for all directories that were hanging before. But now, ls > > -l hangs too. Man, this is weird. > > Both colorizing the names based on the file type and getting the file > metadata for a long listing require reading each file's inode, whereas > 'ls' showing only the name requires only reading the directory data. If that's the case then "ls -l" should also hang. Does it? poc
