[Bug: 21.4.19] dired does not work properly anymore

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Mats Lidell writes:

 > The '--dired' flag is turned on to ls(1). dired should be able to
 > slurp in that (and make good use of it) but apparently is doesn't.
 > 
 > You might be better of trying to turn of that switch as a temporary
 > solution until you find out why it doesn't work as expected. ;-)

s/temporary/permanent/, IMHO.  Having a generic utility like ls(1)
spit out Emacs-specific information makes me feel sick to my stomach.
Worse may be better, but this kind of worse is just bad