bug#35531: problem with ls in coreutils

Hi Although this bug report seems to be a problem with the windows port of ls, it reminded me of an interesting investigation into slow ls speeds due to colorizing via the LS_COLORS environment variable. See https://news.sherlock.stanford.edu/posts/when-setting-an-environment-variable-gives-you

bug#33577: ls lacks null terminator option

The output from stat(1) can be controlled, and is therefore easier to parse than ls's human-friendly output, IMO. Regards - Peter