Re: ls showing deleted file, sorta

Tyler Mitchell <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:00:06 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.fileutils.bugs
Message-ID <OFCA1C1B04.2D2565C6-ON88256E85.0072D181-88256E85.00735DDF@lignum.com>
> 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