alt Hacker NewsYou could imagine determining from the parsed expression whether or not stat'ing was required.
NFS has readdirplus, but I don't think it ever made its way into Linux/POSIX. (Some filesystems could efficiently return dirents + stat information.)
You could imagine determining from the parsed expression whether or not stat'ing was required.
NFS has readdirplus, but I don't think it ever made its way into Linux/POSIX. (Some filesystems could efficiently return dirents + stat information.)
> readdirplus
Well, it definitely does _something_, because on NFS the subsequent stat() calls after reading the directory names do indeed complete instantly :), at least in my testing.