Re: updates to ls(1), output, and Emacs "dired" mode

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 09:55:48PM +0900, Ryo ONODERA wrote:
> From: christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas), Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 
> 02:11:36 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> > In article 
> > <CABfrOT8bczO+czRp-TfFRC3J-QJDcP1grDkcjnujpQ_jojtbDQ%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
> > B Harder  <brad.harder%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> >>I suspect that the recent changes to ls have affected its output,
> >>which affects Emacs "dired" mode (it parses ls output).
> >>
> >>1) Am I correct output has changed?
> >>2) if "yes", is this expected behaviour?
> > 
> > No, output should not have changed unless the new options are used.
> 
> With ls.c 1.71, output of ls -w is broken.
> 
> /usr/src/bin/ls% LANG=C ./ls -w
> .         .         .         .         .         .
> .         .         .         .         .         .
> .         .         .         .         .


I noticed that as "ls | more" giving a different result to "ls".

Cheers,

Patrick