Re: making GNU ls -i (--inode) work around the linux readdir bug

[Jim Meyering]

Phillip Susi <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Here are two reasons:
>>
>>   - lack of convincing arguments: any program that runs
>>     "ls -i non-directory ..." is not affected at all.
>
> Of course it is effected -- it takes much longer to run.

When I say "not affected" I mean it.
Turning off the readdir optimization affects ls -i only
when it reads directory entries.