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27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, 36729 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36729: 27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2020 15:14:47 +0300

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 12:03:39 +0200
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net,
>         36729 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 7 okt. 2020 kl. 09.50 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:
> 
> > I no longer understand what we are trying to solve here.
> 
> A bit lost here myself, but it seems that no real progress has been made and that the original problem (how to display a meaningful 'total' value in dired) is still at hand.

Yes.

> However given the apparent constraints (running an external 'ls' binary with unclear semantics; uncountable platform variations; user-settable 'ls' switches; sensitivity to environment variables; localised output; &c &c) I don't think it can be solved in any reasonable way. I therefore propose closing the bug as 'wontfix'.

You mean, we cannot even say in what units those numbers are measured?
AFAIU, the missing units were the original motivation for the bug
report.

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