On 12/23/2011 09:50 AM, Craig White wrote:
can't say for certain (and I'm not going to research) but I've been using Linux for many years and never see blinking names from an ls command except for broken symbolic links. Blinking/flashing makes sense in terms of drawing your attention to things that are broken.
I'm not going to do any research either.... But, I did want to point out one thing.
Sometimes a broken link isn't a "broken link". If the link points to a file in a directory to where you don't have access. An example of this would be /etc/named.conf in a chroot environment. As a normal user you'd go to /etc and see named.conf flashing....but it really isn't broken.