> To be clear, in my opinion -f should ignore -r and suppress the total
> block count for -lgnos, and take a 'fast track' function where it just
> prints directory entries as it encounters them, rather than reading
> them all into memory and waiting until the end before (not) sorting
> them and printing them all out at once.

We could do that, I'm not sure that the speed and memory gain would
be that much interesting though.

> Otherwise why have the flag at all?

Well, for having files listed in the directory order, as stated. You don't
always want to list sorted files.

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