bug#14525: ls -k produced no size, ls -lk lists in bytes? What's up w/k?

[Linda Walsh]

Eric Blake wrote:
  If you think there is an extension
> missing in ls to display something that you need, feel free to write a
> patch to provide that extension 
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Actually it's a desire to have what Used to be there before...


Astarte:law> ll *.iso
-rw-rw-r-- 1 734646272 2011-01-13 07:45 OMSA64-CentOS55-x86_64-LiveCD.iso
               ^^ size in bytes...
Astarte:law> ll -k *.iso
-rw-rw-r-- 1 717428 2011-01-13 07:45 OMSA64-CentOS55-x86_64-LiveCD.iso
                ^^ size in K....
Astarte:law> ll --block-size=M *.iso
-rw-rw-r-- 1 701M 2011-01-13 07:45 OMSA64-CentOS55-x86_64-LiveCD.iso
              ^^^ and size in Megabytes -- even with the 'M'...

I could send you a patch from 7.1, but you probably already have
a more recent version that doesn't have functionality removed?