On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 06:55:51PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
There IS size info, although it's wrong... That appears to be a bug introduced some time after 1.9.4, which I have lying around, that has it right. I also have 1.12.2 where it is wrong, so... somewhere in between.
Yes, Olaf Hering submitted a patch in 1.10, zeroing out the directory size for the reason you site below:
However the size of a directory is very likely not what you think it is, and is not particularly useful to you. On Unix systems, at least for most file systems, the size of a directory is the space occupied by the blocks needed to hold the internal representation of the listing of the directory... NOT the size of the contents of the directory.
I don't feel strongly one way or another, but the listing does look a bit cleaner with the (useless) sizes zeroed out. Feel free to bring it up on mutt-dev if you feel it should be changed back.
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