'ls' hangs FC6
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Apr 10 15:15:40 UTC 2008
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.
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