Computational complexity of rm & ls

[Marco Zagha]

In article <9000012 at m.cs.uiuc.edu>, wsmith at m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
> [...]   "rm *" seems to be a common
> enough idiom that rm could be optimized to handle that case better.

Don't forget that the shell expands the "*", not rm.  All rm sees
is a huge argv with one name for every file (except .* files).

== Marco (marcoz at cs.cmu.edu)


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