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Re: /bin/ls is impure!



On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:08:01AM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote:
> It works... Something's wrong with your system.
> Try strace'ing ls.

I don't know why your system is different, but it's been checked
by several people. (ltrace reveals it's trying to malloc a steadily
increasing amount of memory.) It's apparently a malset COLUMNS 
variable. 

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