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ls documentation should reflect file system atime setting

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Message #10 received at 25407-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Scott Deerwester <scott.deerwester <at> gmail.com>, 25407-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25407: ls documentation should reflect file system atime
 setting
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 15:18:32 -0800

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On 01/09/2017 10:32 AM, Scott Deerwester wrote:
> This behavior should be
> prominently documented in the man page for ls under the -u option.

Thanks for mentioning the issue. Although it's worth documenting I'm not
sure it belongs in the ls man page, which is supposed to be quite terse.
Instead, I documented it in the coreutils manual (which is the primary
documentation for 'ls' anyway) by installing the attached. The first
patch is a minor cleanup, the second the real doc change.

[0001-maint-standardize-on-timestamp-as-per-POSIX.patch (application/x-patch, attachment)]

[0002-doc-cover-file-timestamps-better.patch (application/x-patch, attachment)]

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