linux-kernel - Re: wierd file perms

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Message-ID: <47120BC9.2060008@xs4all.nl>
Date:	Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:30:01 +0200
From:	Bauke Jan Douma <bjdouma@...all.nl>
To:	vignesh babu <vigneshbabu@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wierd file perms

Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote on 13-10-07 19:28:
> On Sat, 2007-10-13 22:40:23 +0530, vignesh babu <vigneshbabu@...il.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

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