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

[David W. Tamkin]

mercer at npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer) wrote in
<638 at npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM>:

| Maybe I'm dense,  but how does find know whether a file is a directory
| (and should be descended) or another type of file without stat()ing the
| file?

I think the idea is that after find does stat() the file and sees that it is
a directory with only two links, it shouldn't bother stat()ting the entries
in that directory because none of them will be subdirectories.  There will
be only one more level to descend.

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