Re: lynx-dev local directory listing - TOO SLOW

[Mike Castle]

Amazingly enough Bela Lubkin said:
> I doubt this would make any noticable difference, as long as [ug]id's
> are being cached.  It might also help to use a setpwent(), repeat
> getpwent() loop to fill that cache, rather than specific getpwuid() for
> each new ID.  (But that could cost a lot of memory on systems with large
> /etc/passwd.)


How many subdirectories really how files owned by more than a handful of
different owners?

Mostly /tmp.

So preloading the cache would not gain much in the average case, I would
think.

mrc
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