Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes: > | None of my symlink targets have a color anymore: > | > | Reverting to coreutils 6.9-5 shows the link targets in color again, > | and an strace on `ls -l y' shows the stat call for x.exe. > > Thanks for the report; this is probably an upstream bug. But I will try > to investigate further. >
It looks like this commit is the culprit: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=0a74437 It looks like a true regression. The change was introduced because of this thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-06/msg00004.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-07/msg00079.html It looks like when -l is NOT in effect, you should not stat the result of a symlink. But when -l IS in effect, and C_EXEC is enabled, then the result of stat'ing the symling IS used, in order to color the symlink target differently than the color of the symlink. -- Eric Blake _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
