On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 08:06 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > 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 > > > > ls -l /does/ hang in those cases, /with/ and /without/ the color option. > However, the hang is different. With ls --color=tty the hang locks > the entire ssh session. Whereas I can CTRL+C out of the ls -l hang. > > So you think this is inode/disk related? Since this happens in only one directory I would think it is the directory that is the problem. Try: echo * in that directory and see what you get. -- ======================================================================= Everyone is more or less mad on one point. -- Rudyard Kipling ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
