Why is find so slow (Re: Why use find?)

Felix Lee flee at dictionopolis.cs.psu.edu
Fri Oct 12 03:09:25 AEST 1990


>What happened to "ftw", that was discussed at Usenix a few years ago?

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 at cs.psu.edu



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