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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 17:38:05 +0200

> From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 12:47:09 +0100
> Cc: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>,
>  積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]>,
>  [email-masked]
> 
> 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.

Wouldn't it be enough to implement only what GNU 'ls' does?  If some
users will be unhappy with that and will want something their native
'ls' does, they can always go back to the old behavior (which we will
need to leave in any case for backward compatibility).