[550] in Athena Bugs
re: A bug with "ls" in 6.0B VAX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (vanharen@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Jul 22 18:00:28 1988
From: <vanharen@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 88 17:59:35 EDT
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Sorry, I can't "reply" in the bugs discuss meeting, so I have to mail this
in... discontinuity in the chain...
No, there wasn't a copy of the words.lpt file before I scribed.
The file words.lpt would've been around 229K, as I was just scrib'ing the
file /usr/dict/words, and the .lpt file would be slightly larger than
/usr/dict/words itself (204K).
I agree, it is probably more likely a bug with NFS, but I thought maybe
"ls" was interpreting the info it gets from NFS incorrectly, or something?
(I don't know, I'm just guessing...)
I can duplicate the situation. I did it twice to make sure of what was
happening. I'll try out the "stat" idea when I get the chance. I
suspect I'll get the 96K consistently, as "ls -s" did... although I'm
not sure... The file grew up to that point, but then "ls -s" stuck
at 96K, while with "ls -l" the size (apparently) kept going...
-Chris
