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Re: [Findutils-patches] [PATCH] Optimise away calls to stat if all we ne
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James Youngman |
Subject: |
Re: [Findutils-patches] [PATCH] Optimise away calls to stat if all we need is the inode number (bug #24342). |
Date: |
Sun, 8 Mar 2009 18:01:12 +0000 |
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> James Youngman wrote:
> ...
>> +#24342: -inum predicate shoud use dirent.d_ino instead of stat.st_ino
>> +(this is a performance bug).
>
> You might want to mention that dirent.d_ino values are unreliable on some
> systems (Linux, Solaris, *BSD get it wrong, but Cygwin gets it right).
The text could have perhaps been more specific there, but in our case,
we just discard d_ino for directories, and stat them instead.
> The problem is with mount points. There, stat.st_ino does not always
> match the corresponding dirent.d_ino. This is a problem even with the
> latest Linux kernels.
Yes, I'm aware of the problem.
James.