bug#8578: 8.12 and 8.10 'ls -dl' appends ' ' (0x20: space) to file output lines

[Jason Vas Dias]

I do:

$ ls --version | grep '[(]G'
ls (GNU coreutils) 8.12
$ ls -dl /. | od -cx
0000000   d   r   w   x   r   -   x   r   -   x   .       2   5       r
           7264    7877    2d72    7278    782d    202e    3532    7220
0000020   o   o   t       r   o   o   t       4   0   9   6       A   p
           6f6f    2074    6f72    746f    3420    3930    2036    7041
0000040   r       2   0       1   5   :   2   8       /   .  \n
           2072    3032    3120    3a35    3832    2f20    0a2e
0000056

Please could the ls developer let me know if it 100% POSIXLY correct
that ls appends 0x20 to the filename '/.'  here ?

I believe confusion over this issue is at the root of Python bug #11946 : 
http://bugs.python.org/issue11946

because Python isn't handling the trailing space.

Thanks for an otherwise flawless coreutils & Regards,

Jason (JVD) <address@hidden>