Re: ls does not return when listing directory of 70 thousand files with color enabled

[Jim Meyering]

John Richer <address@hidden> wrote:
> The ls command prints no output and does not return when involved in a
> directory containing about 70,000 files.
...
> If I turn color off, all is well (ls --color=never)
>
> Version Info:
>
>       ls (GNU fileutils) 4.0p
>       Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.
>
> System:  RH Linux 7.1

Thanks for the report.
A lot has changed since fileutils-4.0p.
Would you please see if you can reproduce the problem using
the version of ls from fileutils-4.1.9?

ftp://linux-rep.fnal.gov/pub/mirrors/gnu/alpha/fileutils/fileutils-4.1.9.tar.bz2
ftp://linux-rep.fnal.gov/pub/mirrors/gnu/alpha/fileutils/fileutils-4.1.9.tar.gz

I couldn't reproduce the problem using these commands, and
starting in an empty directory on an ext3 file system and running
linux-2.4.18:

  seq 80000|xargs touch
  ls --color=tty

If you *can* reproduce the failure, please send me
the list of file names and their types.