Subject: Re: bug#36729: 27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 05:32:00 +0300

> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 14:31:07 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> Another good reason is that a given user's system
> `ls' command might support switches and behavior
> that ls-lisp does not support.  That one you left
> out, and it's the one that most directly concerns
> ls-lisp.  Ls-lisp is not, and likely will never
> be, a complete replacement for all of the possible
> `ls' commands out there.

That is only true for some switches of GNU 'ls', AFAIK.