GNU bug report logs - #11453
`ls` in coreutils-8.17 incorrectly shows broken symlinks in /

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org>

Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 18:13:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: `ls` in coreutils-8.17 incorrectly shows broken symlinks in /
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 14:11:54 -0400

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coreutils-8.16 works fine (confirmed), and i don't recall seeing this bug 
before, so looks like a regression with 8.17

easy to show:
$ sudo ln -s dev /foo
$ ls --color=auto /
... foo wrongly shows up in blinky text indicating it's a broken symlink ...
$ ls --color=auto /.
... foo correctly shows up with normal coloring indicating it's a symlink ...
$ cd / ; ls --color=auto
... foo correctly shows up with normal coloring indicating it's a symlink ...
-mike

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