--strip-trailing-slashes in ls?

[Scott]

Hi

in 4.0.1 ls was modified to have POSIX.2 behaviour and
dereference symlinks when followed by a trailing /

IE
ls -ld <symlink-to-dir>/
ls -lLd <symlink-to-dir>
ls -ld <symlink-to-dir>/.

are all equivalent at this point.

Before that the trailing slashes were removed beofre processing.

I'd like ot have the --strip-trailing-slashes, or an equivalent option
re-added to ls to have the previous behaviour.

This woudl enable GNU behaviour to mirror that of commerical UNIX.

-Scott

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