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Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.5.65-61cc6
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Eric Blake |
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Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.5.65-61cc6 |
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Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:56:07 -0600 |
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According to Jim Meyering on 9/7/2009 3:09 AM:
> ls -i now prints consistent inode numbers also for mount points.
> This makes ls -i DIR less efficient on systems with dysfunctional readdir,
> because ls must stat every file in order to obtain a guaranteed-valid
> inode number. [bug introduced in coreutils-6.0]
On systems with working d_type, is it sufficient to limit the stat() to
situations where we know that the entry might be a directory (DT_DIR or
DT_UNKNOWN)? In other words, are we guaranteed that mount points can only
occur atop directories, and that we can avoid the stat() for regular files?
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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