bug#5597: Dired unable to properly recognize file names

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> I think it depends on whether your `ls' supports --dired.

Speaking of which, is there any particular reason why dired still uses
an external program?  If it's because `ls-lisp' is too slow, wouldn't it
be rather easy to, say, extend `directory-files' to return a list of
stat structures instead?

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