#2161 find -ls incorrect byte size & missing day column

[SRNT]

The findutils command "find" is broken for -ls. Doing `find . -type f -ls' returns:
a) no day column (there are 3 colums like Oct 18 2013, and the middle one is missing),
b) the byte-size (7th column, it's before the date colums) is not always correct, for large files (e.g. 3.5 GB) it is the ULLONG_MAX minus bytes.

find (GNU findutils) 4.4.2
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Eric B. Decker, James Youngman, and Kevin Dalley.
Built using GNU gnulib version e5573b1bad88bfabcda181b9e0125fb0c52b7d3b
Features enabled: O_NOFOLLOW(disabled) LEAF_OPTIMISATION FTS() CBO(level=0)

Exactly the same version (identical --version output) on Ubuntu 12.10 works correctly for large files:

$ uname -a
Linux (...) 3.5.0-43-generic #66-Ubuntu SMP (...) i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

[Vincent Belaïche]

I have the same issue. It was quite a nuisance to me because Emacs M-x find-name-dired command uses find whith the -ls option rather than a more explicit -exec ls - dils {} +. Fortunately, this can be got around in any one of the two following ways:

• Customizing Emacs by setting -exec ls - dils {} + into the car element of variable find-ls-option.
• Using EZWinPorts find instead of MSYS find for Emacs, you may need some hacking to add some (setq find-program "Path/to/the/correct/find.exe") in your Emacs init file — this variable does not have and customize interface.

Here is an examplification of the problem with MSYS find:

 $ find . -path "./trunk/fmtcount-manual.tex"  -ls
-| 889094   19 -rw-r--r--   1 Vincent  Administrateurs    36915 Jun  16:35 ./trunk/fmtcount-manual.tex
 $ ls -dils "./trunk/fmtcount-manual.tex"
-| 889094 37 -rw-r--r-- 1 Vincent Administrateurs 36915 Jun 15 16:35 ./trunk/fmtcount-manual.tex

I am also using version 4.4.2:

  $ find --version
-| find (GNU findutils) 4.4.2
-| Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-| License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
-| This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
-| There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
-| 
-| Written by Eric B. Decker, James Youngman, and Kevin Dalley.
-| Built using GNU gnulib version e5573b1bad88bfabcda181b9e0125fb0c52b7d3b
-| Features enabled: O_NOFOLLOW(disabled) LEAF_OPTIMISATION FTS() CBO(level=0)