ls --color (strange display)
Philippe Bastiani
philippe.bastiani@wanadoo.fr
Fri Sep 19 05:46:00 GMT 2003
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! But, IMHO, 'ls' should not fails, and
displays the unreadable files without color!
a+
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Philippe
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