Subject: bug#12445: ls --color does not color symlinks when not resolving them

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:55:12 +0100

tag 12445 + notabug
close 12445
stop

On 09/14/2012 05:54 PM, Matei David wrote:
> When the ORPHAN property is disabled in dircolors, ls --color does not stat()
> symlinks. However, in this case symlinks are not colored using the LINK
> property.
>
> How to reproduce:
> $ eval $(dircolors -p | sed 's/^ORPHAN.*/ORPHAN 00/' | dircolors -)
> $ mkdir /tmp/xxx
> $ ln -s /tmp/nowhere /tmp/xxx/yyy
> $ ls --color /tmp/xxx
>
> Expected output:
> yyy, colored cyan (default for LINK)
>
> Actual output:
> yyy, not colored
>
> Fix attached. Basically, in gobble_file(), assume a symlink is ok if stat() is
> not run on it.

It seems this was fixed over 5 years ago in version 6.9
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=0a744370
Are you using an older version than that?

I'm marking as done for now.

thanks,
Pádraig.