bug#36729: 27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Wed, 07 Oct 2020 18:40:23 +0200, Michael Albinus 
>>>>> <michael.albinus@gmx.de> said:

    Michael> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
    >>> That's right. It may be blocks, sectors, KiB, or baker's
    >>> dozens. There may be ways to influence the unit (switches,
    >>> environment variables) but not portably, and there is no way of
    >>> telling what effects such efforts take, if any.
    >> 
    >> Doesn't the result come from get-free-disk-space, which calls
    >> file-system-info, which reports in known units?  Or am I confused?

    Michael> file-system-info does not give you information about used file 
sizes in
    Michael> a directory. Something which I've missed also in Tramp.

Tramp could use 'ls-lisp' maybe?

Robert
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