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

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 12:47:09 +0100

On Okt 28 2020, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> True.  If `ls-lisp' (or something similar) isn't fast enough, then it
> should be pretty easy to add a C-level function for efficient directory
> reading.

That would require re-implementing each and every ls implementation, to
handle all possible command line arguments.

Andreas.

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