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Incorrect information in online manual

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Oscar Tobar <oskr_220 <at> hotmail.com>

Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 05:49:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

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From: Oscar Tobar <oskr_220 <at> hotmail.com>
To: 12642 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12642: Incorrect information in online manual
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:31:07 -0300

According to http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Block-size.html the environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT sets the block size of ls to 512 in certain cases. This is not currently the case. The patch in which this behavior was disabled is http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-06/msg00050.html
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