On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 09:21:21AM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> This is adapted from FreeBSD revs 130236 and 130237 which have the
> following log message:
>
> If we are asked to print the total number of blocks, do so even if we
> have no entries to print (either due to an empty directory or an
> error). This makes the -l and -s options more consistent, like
> Solaris and (Debian) Linux. To make this happen, tweak two
> optimizations on the second call to display():
>
> - Don't skip display() altogether, even if list == NULL.
> - Don't skip the call to the printfn in display() if we
> need to print the total.
>
> I've verified that both historic AT&T ls and GNU ls behave this
> way.
OK kn
