Hello!

> It is fixed now. But most interesting: The changes introduced the next
> error, this one seems more fatal:

Indeed! I was just bitten by it while trying to install teTeX again.
The texhash skript, which updates the ls-R database uses exactly those
options :-(

> --------snip-----
> $ ls -LR ./ /dev/null
> /dev/null
> 
> ./ev/null:
> ls: no such file or directory
> -------snip------
> 
> ls -LR . /dev/null works fine.

Is this bug already known? Did you send a pr on it? Else you should
consider doing so, as this bug is annoying :(

Greets
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