mirror of https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Bauke Jan Douma <bjdouma@xs4all.nl>
To: vignesh babu <vigneshbabu@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wierd file perms
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:30:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47120BC9.2060008@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071013172848.GE16774@lug-owl.de>

Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote on 13-10-07 19:28:
> On Sat, 2007-10-13 22:40:23 +0530, vignesh babu <vigneshbabu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I was surprised and did an ls -l on the files and guess what I found:
>>
>> total 0
>> ?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? fcntl.c
>> ?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? fifo.c
>> ?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? filesystems.c
>> ?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? file_table.c
>> ?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? freevxfs
>>
>> So end result is that, Im not able to delete the files or change perms
>> or ownership even as root.
> 
> Most probably, your filesystem is broken and needs a fsck.
> 
> MfG, JBG
> 

I don't think this is a bug, but a feature of 'ls', see for instance
the coreutils mailing list:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-05/msg00226.html

bjd


  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-14 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-13 17:10 vignesh babu
2007-10-13 17:28 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-10-14 12:30   ` Bauke Jan Douma [this message]
2007-10-14 12:42     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-14 13:27   ` Mark Lord
2007-10-14 14:05     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-14 20:01       ` Mark Lord
2007-10-15  1:29         ` vignesh babu
2007-10-14 13:29 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-14 13:31   ` Jan-Benedict Glaw

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=47120BC9.2060008@xs4all.nl \
    --to=bjdouma@xs4all.nl \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=vigneshbabu@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®