GNU bug report logs - #5597
Dired unable to properly recognize file names

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Otto Maddox" <ottomaddox <at> fastmail.fm>

Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:43:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 3710, 4044, 9039

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 5597 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, ottomaddox <at> fastmail.fm
Subject: bug#5597: Dired unable to properly recognize file names
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:10:14 +0300

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 13:59:05 +0200
> Cc: 5597 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Otto Maddox <ottomaddox <at> fastmail.fm>
> 
> Speaking of which, is there any particular reason why dired still uses
> an external program?  If it's because `ls-lisp' is too slow

I don't think it's slow on a Posix system, where the `stat' function
is highly optimized and very fast.  I think the main reasons are 
(a) inertia, and (b) ls-lisp doesn't support all of the switches
available with GNU `ls'.
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