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ls -lk is wrong

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From: "Alan Curry" <pacman-cu <at> kosh.dhis.org>
To: 10016 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10016: ls -lk is wrong
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:35:32 -0500 (GMT+5)

I mentioned this already in the bug#9939 thread, but nobody replied and it's
really a separate issue so here's an independent report.

This behavior:

$ ls -l /bin/ls
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 107124 Feb  8  2011 /bin/ls
$ ls -lk /bin/ls
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 105 Feb  8  2011 /bin/ls

is awful. -k should not have any effect on the ls -l field that reports
st_size. It is only supposed to possibly affect the reporting of st_blocks
by -s and the "total" line at the start of a full directory listing.

I won't make any claims about what --block-size should do, but -k comes from
BSD and it should act like BSD.

-- 
Alan Curry

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