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"total used in directory 19 available 5.2 GiB"

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: mattiase <at> acm.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, 44273 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: bug#44273: "total used in directory 19 available 5.2 GiB"
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 05:34:13 +0200

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 17:03:56 -0700
> Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, mattiase <at> acm.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org, 
> 	44273 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> > Why don't you ask the Coreutils developers to remove that from 'ls'
> >> > display as well, then?
> >>
> >> I believe this line is mandated by POSIX.
> >
> > Does POSIX mandate what 'ls' outputs when invoked with the --dired
> > switch?
> 
> Sorry, I didn't realize you were referring to that flag.  (But maybe I
> should have...)
> 
> I don't think POSIX says anything about the --dired flag.  It's a GNU
> extension.

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

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