> 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.