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On 3/31/25 12:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> ls(1) always potentially shows a past state anyway.

Sure, but traditionally (and I'm talking about 7th edition Unix) a 
single output line of 'ls' corresponded to a state obtained atomically 
from the file system. I realize we can't always do that nowadays but the 
further we depart from it, the worse 'ls' users will be.

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