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From: mercer@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer)
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Subject: Re: Why is find so slow (Re: Why use find?)
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Date: 15 Oct 90 19:19:54 GMT
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In article <F&gya5o2@cs.psu.edu> flee@dictionopolis.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:
:>What happened to "ftw", that was discussed at Usenix a few years ago?
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: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


Sorry,  missed the beginning of this thread - what is lazy stat()ing?


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