[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-6.10-1

[Eric Blake]

Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:

> 
> These are the changes noted in the changelog.  However, what I see now
> is that the target of a symlink is not colored anymore at all.

According to the upstream maintainer, this was a deliberate change (even though 
it was not mentioned in NEWS).  
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/95238/focus=13223
The cost of stat'ing a known symlink (which may involve spinning up a disk or 
doing a network access) just to color its target was deemed too expensive for 
the default.  Coreutils 6.11 is due out this week, with no change in behavior, 
but perhaps for 6.12, upstream can add a option to dircolors/ls that requests 
coloring symlink targets in spite of the increased cost of the stat.

-- 
Eric Blake




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