-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Christopher Faylor on 4/22/2005 11:06 AM: > Actually, thanks but I don't think we want to go down this path. > > Properly implementing this field would introduce the same problems as > properly implementing d_ino. Doing this would mean adding too much > overhead to readdir.
But there are a number of applications out there that behave more efficiently if d_ino/d_type ARE properly implemented. For example, both coreutils and findutils are smart enough to avoid extra [l]stat()s on systems with working d_type when traversing directories. You may find that properly implementing d_type slows down readdir() but speeds up applications. Most applications that use readdir() are doing so in the context of directory traversal, and have to do a followup stat or lstat to find out the type if readdir() doesn't tell them. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCak9n84KuGfSFAYARAgVDAJ45iPUSGtUP4mqEqQoprPrhbHCXswCfVfQJ XyadNMn5xjFKlQxWYtzkq98= =M1zX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/