ls output still truncated

[Cesar Strauss]

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


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