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

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From: Felix Lee
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 1990 17:09

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>What happened to "ftw", that was discussed at Usenix a few years ago?

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.
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Felix Lee	flee@cs.psu.edu

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