Use readdir() to read the dir file so it doesn't have to stat()
everything. Depending on the tool you use depends on what it does under
the hood. Both ls and find stat() files I believe.
Example:
# time ls -l /dir/with/40k/files | wc -l
6709
real0m2.606s
user0m0.096s
sys 0m0.136s
On 7/1/10 6:36 PM, Mike Schwartz wrote:
Interesting take on PKI and security
http://www.schneier.com/paper-pki-ft.txt
a favorite take-away quote, from it:
"[...] security is very difficult, both to understand and to implement."
The biggest problem with security is that most (nearly 99%) do n
