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Re: ls showing deleted file, sorta


From: Tyler Mitchell
Subject: Re: ls showing deleted file, sorta
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:00:06 -0700

> There may be a problem with your file system.  What type is it?
> The first ls (with no options) simply opens one `file' (the directory),
> and then prints the names of the entries it finds there.
> 
> When you run `ls -l', ls has to call lstat for each file name
> that it finds in a directory entry.  The above shows it found
> an entry for postmaster.log in the directory, but that the
> `lstat ("postmaster.log", ...' call failed with ENOENT.
> 
> Since this is Cygwin-related, I suggest you report it to them:
> 
>   http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Filesystem is NTFS - a wealth of pleasures, I'm sure...
Makes sense to me Jim, thanks for the dialogue.

Tyler





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