ftw (was Re: Anything faster than stat(S)? ...)

[dragos]

In article <159 at norsat.UUCP> dbin at norsat.UUCP (Dave Binette) writes:
>The consensus for the question "Anything faster than stat(S)?"
>is "No"
>
>Now for plan "B" (ignore me if I am trying your patience)
>
>"Is there anything faster than opendir(S), and readdir(S)"
>I can't and don't want to use  ftw(S)

Speaking of which, does anyone have any knowledge of the status of FTW ?
I've been tempted to try reverse engineering the routines from the Usenix
paper for my "quaint" SysV.2 system.

I'm only interested in the routines, not the complex find language they
describe. I'd just like to re-implement du with it and hopefully turn
a hideous process into only painful. Is there any chance Bell Labs will
release the code for it, or am I dreaming ?

E-mail please and I'll post a summary if enough people are interested.

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