Leaf directories (Re: Why is find so slow)

[Jim Burns]

in article <F&gya5o2 at cs.psu.edu>, flee at dictionopolis.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) says:

> 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.

I'm confused - what's a leaf directory, and how does it relate to this
discussion?
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