os.Readdirnames() just returns dir enry names[1], while
os.Readdir() lstats all the dir entries.
Pretty much every OS's (C lang) readdir() returns a direntry's
type without having to stat the underlying file. More often
than not this is all one wants -- not everyone wants to walk a
directory tree -- and even there filepath.Walk() lstats all
the files unnecessarily.
I have directories with thousands of files and a very smal
number of subdirs so the lstat overhead is considerable.
Is there a package that does ReadDirents() returning a pair
([]string, []byte) or []struct {type byte; name string}?
Thanks,
Bakul
[1] Not to mention the name "Readdirnames" is not quite right
as it does not read the directory's names!
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