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From: m5@lynx.uucp (Mike McNally)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ftw (Joe Pruett's descend).
Keywords: ftw descend
Message-ID: <6675@lynx.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 89 16:47:12 GMT
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tony@oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy) writes:

>In message <564@balthmus.tessi.UUCP>, joey@tessi.UUCP (Joe Pruett) writes:
>>
>> A quick hack I've used in a directory traversal program is to use the
>> link count of . to determine how many subdirectories there are.  If .
>> has no subdirectories, then you don't have to stat every file name.

>This is great.
>It's three times faster . . .

I'm going to give this a try in a couple of our utilities.  Of course, if
the tree traversal is supposed to follow symbolic links, you're stuck with
the lstats.  Most of the time it's not a problem.






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