Re: wrong color for broken symlinks

[Matthew Woehlke]

Andreas Frische wrote:
> first of all, this seems to be related with
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-04/msg00008.html
> and could be already fixed. anyway:
>
> I'm using Slackware-current and with ls (GNU coreutils) 6.7 broken symlinks
> are colored in cyan instead of red. what baffles me even more, though, is
> that they are colored right with ls -l. any ideas?

Yes. Try 6.9, seems to be fixed. :-)

IIRC, the "why" is because readlink() is (was) not called for a short 
listing, so 'ls' doesn't (didn't) know if the symlink is valid or not.


--
Matthew
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