vcap...@pengaru.com writes:
> Thanks for the quick response, that's great the info file is accurate,
> unfortunately I never looked at it.
>
> The source was my next reference after seeing behavior not matching
> --help and the manual. Surely those should still be corrected, they
> don't need to contain as much as the info page just something indicating
> specifically an allocated size.
Ok. I've made this change:
>From 2061cd8aa64454d689a4de600aa515781cf346c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:31:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: ls: clarify description of -s
* src/ls.c (usage): Make the description of -s mention "allocated size",
so that it's less likely to be confused with an apparent byte-count.
Suggested by Vito Caputo.
---
THANKS | 1 +
src/ls.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index f2fcd01..ebb8c4d 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -557,6 +557,7 @@ Vin Shelton
a...@alumni.princeton.edu
Vineet Chadha cha...@acis.ufl.edu
Vitali Lovich vlov...@gmail.com
Vitaly A. Ostanin v...@altlinux.org
+Vito Caputo vcap...@pengaru.com
Vlada Macek tut...@bbs.fsik.cvut.cz
Volker Borchert b...@teknon.de
Volker Paul vp...@dohle.com
diff --git a/src/ls.c b/src/ls.c
index 59d1fae..5d0deec 100644
--- a/src/ls.c
+++ b/src/ls.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/* `dir', `vdir' and `ls' directory listing programs for GNU.
- Copyright (C) 85, 88, 90, 91, 1995-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 85, 88, 90, 91, 1995-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -4503,7 +4503,7 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for
short options too.\n\
fputs (_("\
-r, --reverse reverse order while sorting\n\
-R, --recursive list subdirectories recursively\n\
- -s, --size print the size of each file, in blocks\n\
+ -s, --size print the allocated size of each file, in
blocks\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
-S sort by file size\n\
--
1.6.2.rc1.241.g7bf82
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