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Subject: Re: ls weirdness on root drive
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 09:48:40 -0600 (CST)
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> Is this conclusion confirmed by running just findfirst on that 
> directory?  

Actually just running ls - don't have time to write a test program.

> If you only see the weird behavior in stat, it could be 
> something peculiar to lstat, not to findfirst.  stat examines the DOS 
> attributes, and tries to detect volume lables, so it could err when the 
> attributes include the volume-label bit (it happened in the past on NT).

This is an NTFS volume.  It does not have a label.

ls -l and ls -F work (show all normal files)
ls does not work (shows all regular files and first hidden file; in
 alphabetical order stops listing when a system file is hit.  example,
 shows a.a (reg) autoexec.bat(hidden) b.b(reg) bna(dir) stops and does
 not display boot.ini (system+hidden))