[Bug-fileutils] Re: Problems with ls

[Jim Meyering]

Thanks for the report.
Would you please try to reproduce that using the latest
test release?

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/fileutils-4.0z.tar.gz


Chris Hall <address@hidden> writes:
| I've discovered a small problem in ls with very large files, I'm running
| fileutils version 4.0 on AIX 4.3.3. The output looks like this using the GNU 
ls:
|
| $ ls -l
| ls: expFORTIS1P2307.dmp:
| total 20
| drwxrwxrwx   6 root     sys           512 Sep 14 16:11 chris/
| drwxrwx---   2 root     system        512 Sep  1 13:56 lost+found/
| drwxr-sr-x   5 root     sys           512 Sep  7 14:34 patches/
| drwxr-sr-x   2 root     sys           512 Sep  7 13:34 simontemp/
| drwxr-sr-x   2 root     sys           512 Sep  4 18:21 wally/
|
| Where expFORTIS1P2307.dmp is the large file, if I use the native ls, I get 
this:
|
| $ /bin/ls -l
| total 5735976
| drwxrwxrwx   6 root     sys          512 Sep 14 16:11 chris
| -rw-rw-rw-   1 oracle   dba      2936774656 Sep  1 14:44 expFORTIS1P2307.dmp
| drwxrwx---   2 root     system       512 Sep  1 13:56 lost+found
| drwxr-sr-x   5 root     sys          512 Sep  7 14:34 patches
| drwxr-sr-x   2 root     sys          512 Sep  7 13:34 simontemp
| drwxr-sr-x   2 root     sys          512 Sep  4 18:21 wally