ls bug?

[David Favro]

Dear sirs:

I am running FSF ls version 5.2.1 on Fedora Core 2 (i.e. Linux  
distribution) -- it is the binary version of ls that was distributed with  
the Fedora Core 2 Linux distribution.  The --format=vertical option seems  
to me to be broken: it is documented to be the same as -C, but in addition  
to not producing the same output, it produces seemingly erroneous output  
(output shown below).

Thank you for your fine work,
David Favro
Meta-Dynamic Solutions, LLC
address@hidden

/etc/rc.d % ls --version
ls (coreutils) 5.2.1
Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.

Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
/etc/rc.d % ls -C
init.d  rc  rc0.d  rc1.d  rc2.d  rc3.d  rc4.d  rc5.d  rc6.d  rc.local   
rc.sysinit
/etc/rc.d % ls --format=vertical
(null)                           init.d
(null)                           rc
(null)                           rc0.d
(null)                           rc1.d
(null)                           rc2.d
(null)                           rc3.d
(null)                           rc4.d
(null)                           rc5.d
(null)                           rc6.d
(null)                           rc.local
(null)                           rc.sysinit
/etc/rc.d %