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

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 23:05:01 -0400

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  > So then GNU 'ls' could do anything Emacs needs when 'ls' is invoked
  > with --dired, including removing that line.

It could, but there is no reason to do that.  Please don't make that
change, either in ls, or in Dired mode itself.

It is easy for a user to make a dired-mode-hook function delete that
line if it is present.

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