Re: ls default time style

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Paul Jarc wrote:

> > Calling ls TWICE? Why does Emacs have to call "ls" AT ALL?
> 
> Duplicating ls's formatting code could be considered wasteful.  Maybe
> a shared library is in order.
> 
> > Why not use the relevant POSIX.1 API calls for reading directories?
> 
> That's what I was suggesting with directory-files and file-attributes
> (the Elisp bindings for readdir and stat, nearly).

Emacs already has all that; see ls-lisp.el.  It is used on systems
where `ls' isn't a standard program.

However, I don't really see how this can help solve the Dired
problems.  ls-lisp simply calls functions which end up calling the
same strftime which `ls' calls for its thing.  So you have the same
issues as with `ls's output.