Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Fast file scan
Message-ID: <4142@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 4 Oct 90 18:17:50 GMT
References: <299@lysator.liu.se> <143198@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990Oct2.041451.3929@blilly.UUCP>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>>I would probably use ftw(3).  I've found it a useful tool.  
>
>I believe find uses ftw.

Unless you're talking about S5R4 or 4.4BSD or maybe 4.3-Reno, you
believe incorrectly; while the "find" in those releases may be built
atop "ftw" (or atop an enhanced version of same), in most UNIXes out
there "find" doesn't use "ftw".

What *is* the case is that the code of "ftw" is basically the guts of
"find" ripped out and converted into a subroutine, but that's a
different matter.