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Re: Findutils 4.2.15 is now available on ftp.gnu.org
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James Youngman |
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Re: Findutils 4.2.15 is now available on ftp.gnu.org |
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Mon, 31 Jan 2005 02:00:55 +0000 |
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On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 01:24:41PM +0000, James Youngman wrote:
> * Significant performance improvement on Linux (and probably BSD;
> perhaps also MacOS X)
Clarification: here, "Linux" means the actual Linux kernel, not the
GNU/Linux system as a whole. The salient fact is that the Linux
kernel populates the d_type member of "struct dirent" in the data
which is returned by the getdents() system call.
Apologies for any confusion,
James.