On Apr 14 21:17, Eric Blake wrote: > 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.
Using -F is ok for the time being. While the extra stat call is a big performance hit, it's also helpful to identify dangling symlinks. Not that all uncolored symlinks are dangling but the coloring confines the selection... Thanks for your confirmation, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
