'ls' hangs FC6

[Mark Haney]

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?


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