According to http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Block-size.html the environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT sets the block size of ls to 512 in certain cases. This is not currently the case. The patch in which this behavior was disabled is http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-06/msg00050.html
- bug#12642: Incorrect information in online manual Oscar Tobar
- bug#12642: Incorrect information in online manua... Paul Eggert
- bug#12642: bug#12645: 24.2.50; hang in redisplay Michael Welsh Duggan