[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) wrote: > On platforms with a working dirent.d_ino, 'ls -i' is > wastefully calling [l]stat() to get the inode number > rather than using the d_ino obtained from the > readdir(). > > The code currently has format_needs_stat and > format_needs_type; it sounds like we also need > format_needs_inode with the fallback that on > platforms without d_ino, format_needs_inode > implies format_needs_stat.
Thanks for the suggestion. If this isn't too invasive, I'm interested. I think `ls -i' (without some other option requiring stat info) is used far less often than, say `ls -F', so it's harder to justify adding much complexity to optimize for this relatively unusual case. Of course, if there are applications that commonly use `ls -i' on large hierarchies, then it would be easier to justify bigger changes. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
