GNU bug report logs - #49994
upgrade: have "-s" of 'ls' display alloc'd sizes for specified "--block-size"

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From: L A Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Coreutils <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#49994: upgrade: have "-s" of 'ls' display alloc'd sizes for
 specified "--block-size"
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 21:26:26 -0700

On 2021/08/15 21:00, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 8/15/21 4:13 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
>> Hmm...  for libc.so, ls -l shows 253 bytes
>> for -s, it shows '4' and w/block-size=1, it shows
>> 4096...
> 
> Right. That is, those numbers look right.
----
	But I'm specifying a block size of 1 byte, to determine
what size it would take up on a device that allocates in 'bytes'.
I don't want to display the allocated size on the current device,
but the size that would be allocated on a device with block-size=1-byte.

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