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From: adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: something's broke -> 1.5 libc.a & ls.c
Message-ID: <3114@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 8 May 91 11:49:59 GMT
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I'm not sure this is related, but it's the same subject line.
Recently I recompiled the library sources on a floppy disk
and in the process some of the directories suffered some minor
damage. All access to the directories (including fsck) worked
without error, but ls did 'memory fault - core dumped'.
Anyway I cleared it up by doing

mkdir newdir
mv olddir/* newdir
mv newdir olddir

or similar. How come ls failed when other commands had no trouble
with these directories? Might this be related to having large
numbers of files (500+) on the same floppy disk?

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Adam David.
(adamd@rhi.hi.is)