Jonathan Hartley wrote: > Georg Brandl wrote: > >> Which application needs to walk over ALL files? > > How about 'updatedb' for starters, the index-maintainer for the common > *nix command-line utility 'locate'. > > I'm pretty sure that os.walk( ) deals with symbolic links (by not > visiting them) and ' /proc' type complexities by not doing anything to > walked directories that '/proc' type entries cannot deal with. I think > (no sarcasm intended) the point of offering a directory-like interface > to '/proc' was so one can perform directory-like operations on it.
Sure, and I don't say that this is not useful. But for all applications mentioned in the thread (virus scanning, searching for a file by name, updating the locate db), including /proc is not very useful, to say the least. Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
