On Wed, 8 May 2002, Johnny Mnemonic wrote:
> > I've noticed the following wrong behaviour on tmpfs:
> >
> > (running kernel 2.4.18)
> >
> > [johnny@revenge johnny]$ cd /mnt/shm
> > [johnny@revenge shm]$ rm -rf W
> > [johnny@revenge shm]$ mkdir W
> > [johnny@revenge shm]$ cd W
> > [johnny@revenge W]$ touch MYFILE
> > [johnny@revenge W]$ ln -s X Y
> > [johnny@revenge W]$ ls -l
> > total 0
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 johnny johnny 0 May 7 19:37 MYFILE
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 johnny johnny 0 May 7 19:37 MYFILE
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 johnny johnny 1 May 7 19:37 Y -> X
> > [johnny@revenge W]$ ls -l
> > total 0
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 johnny johnny 0 May 7 19:37 MYFILE
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 johnny johnny 1 May 7 19:37 Y -> X
> > [johnny@revenge W]$
> >
> > This bug is reproducible in most ways, when you create a
> > non-existent symlink, the first ls will always show up two "MYFILE",
> > while the second and further one won't.
>
> This is probably a misbehaviour of the general cfs layer on which the
> tmpfs directory handling relies. Further on my time nowaday is totally
> sucked up by my job. So I can't look into this myself.
>
> Please report this bug to the Linux Kernel Mailing list.
>
> Greetings
> Christoph
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> Anyone would like to track this bug before 2.4.19 release?
If you substitute "\ls" for "ls" the problem goes away. If you use "\ls
--color=tty -l" the problem reappears.
-- Charles
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