Re: [Monotone-devel] slow update/status on NFS

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 03:12:55PM -0400, Ethan Blanton wrote:
> Is this true on all reasonable filesystems and operating environments?
> I know that there are flavors of Unix out there (maybe *all* flavors
> of Unix older than some age?) which will let you open() and read() a
> directory.

Well, true -- and as mentioned upthread, we might want to notice
symlinks (not to mention even nastier weird files, like fifos that
will just make us block).  So that would suggest a single stat before
opening, not 4...

-- Nathaniel

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