GNU bug report logs - #36729
27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 10:41:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: patch, wontfix

Merged with 44273

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #71 received at 36729 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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: Re: bug#36729: 27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2020 17:23:36 +0300

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 15:50:36 +0200
> Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, 36729 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > You mean, we cannot even say in what units those numbers are measured?
> 
> That's right. It may be blocks, sectors, KiB, or baker's dozens. There may be ways to influence the unit (switches, environment variables) but not portably, and there is no way of telling what effects such efforts take, if any.

Doesn't the result come from get-free-disk-space, which calls
file-system-info, which reports in known units?  Or am I confused?
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