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

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1989Nov21.070322.6352 at dragos.uucp> ruiu at dragos.UUCP (dragos) writes:
>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 was going to do that and place it in the public domain, only to find
out that IEEE 1003 has been working on specs for a similar but
different facility.  I decided to wait for the dust to settle.