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From: flee@dictionopolis.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: Re: Why is find so slow (Re: Why use find?)
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Date: 11 Oct 90 17:09:25 GMT
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>What happened to "ftw", that was discussed at Usenix a few years ago?

ftw() as spec'd in System V.3 and SunOS 4.1 doesn't special-case leaf
directories, so you can't implement lazy stat()ing.
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Felix Lee	flee@cs.psu.edu