Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > These are the changes noted in the changelog. However, what I see now > is that the target of a symlink is not colored anymore at all.
According to the upstream maintainer, this was a deliberate change (even though it was not mentioned in NEWS). http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/95238/focus=13223 The cost of stat'ing a known symlink (which may involve spinning up a disk or doing a network access) just to color its target was deemed too expensive for the default. Coreutils 6.11 is due out this week, with no change in behavior, but perhaps for 6.12, upstream can add a option to dircolors/ls that requests coloring symlink targets in spite of the increased cost of the stat. -- Eric Blake -- 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/
