ftw (Joe Pruett's descend).

[Mike McNally]

tony at oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy) writes:

>In message <564 at balthmus.tessi.UUCP>, joey at tessi.UUCP (Joe Pruett) writes:
>>
>> A quick hack I've used in a directory traversal program is to use the
>> link count of . to determine how many subdirectories there are.  If .
>> has no subdirectories, then you don't have to stat every file name.

>This is great.
>It's three times faster . . .

I'm going to give this a try in a couple of our utilities.  Of course, if
the tree traversal is supposed to follow symbolic links, you're stuck with
the lstats.  Most of the time it's not a problem.






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