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: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>
To: 5597 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5597: Dired unable to properly recognize file names
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:52:59 +0100

On Sun 18 Sep 2011, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> 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'.

On Windows it is useful to be able to run Cygwin ls as a program
to see Cygwin's symlinks and permissions.

    AndyM
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