Subject: Re: bug#44273: "total used in directory 19 available 5.2 GiB"

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 13:41:01 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:36:07 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >> The data can come from `ls-lisp', but it could also come from "ls": We
> >> just need to write a parser that parses the data.
> >
> > The data which comes from 'ls' can take many different formats,
> > depending on the switches.  Parsing each and every one of them sounds
> > daunting.
> 
> But dired does parse the output.

And frequently fails, without the support provided by --dired.

And its parsing is only partial anyway.