Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes: > 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. >
Also, you can use ls -F to force the stat, and hence the coloring. -- 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/
