At 01:30 AM 9/19/2003, Philippe Bastiani you wrote: >Hi, > >> My WAG is that with --color, ls is opening files to look at the first >> few bytes in an effort to determine what type of file it is. You do not >> have permissions to open C:/hiberfil.sys nor c:/pagefile.sys so it fails. > > >Yes, these 2 files are unreadable!
Correct. That's Windows. >But, IMHO, 'ls' should not fails, and >displays the unreadable files without color! http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/