Re: bug with ls: unnecessary stat calls on symlink targets

[Jeremy Maitin-Shepard]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Currently, if there is a color for LINK, and EXEC, but not for ORPHAN or
>> MISSING, ls still stats the target of every symlink, but never uses the
>> information.  It does this as a result of the following commit:
>> 
>> 
> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/coreutils/src/ls.c?root=coreutils&r1=1.369&r2=1.370
> ...

> Thanks for reporting this.
> I'll investigate in the next few days.

Have you come to any conclusions regarding this bug?

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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard