Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2007-02-20, Chuck wrote: >> Folks I could really use some help here. I still cannot get the ls >> command to work reliably. It worked for years and about two weeks ago >> started sputtering. I have completely unstalled all cygwin packages, >> deleted the directories, and reinstalled from scratch. Even just >> installing the bare mimimum packages and running a bash shell without X >> or even a .profile, ls still fails to output anything 50% of the time. > > At this point, I'd be inclined to get the source for ls, build a > version with debugging enabled, and use gdb. I've never used gdb > under Cygwin, so there may be some reason it isn't as useful under > Cygwin as it is under, say, Linux. In that case, you could add a > few printfs to see what's happening. > > Just my $0.02, > Gary >
I haven't done this sort of thing in about 10 years, but that was actually my next thought too. -- 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/