In message <OFD1969378.E1439028-ON85256BEB.0063C059@in.ibm.com>,"Srikanth Vishw anathan" writes: >We could recreate this by creating a directory with 30000+ files >and running 5 or more instances of "ls --color=tty" at the same >time in that directory. i am pleased to say that it looks like the devel tree passes this test.