[PATCH] Optimisation for readdir using fstatat.

Ira Cooper ira at samba.org
Fri May 24 14:19:59 MDT 2013


A concern raised by Richard, which I haven't had the chance to look at...
Is the use of "stat" here premature?

(For every readdir, are we guaranteed to stat, and not lstat etc...)

-Ira


On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:

> Ira (and others of course :-),
>
> This is the complete proposed patch to improve
> directory performance for deep directory trees.
> Can you test and review +1 if you're ok with it.
>
> Cheers,
>
>         Jeremy.
>


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