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From: | Phillip Susi |
Subject: | Re: making GNU ls -i (--inode) work around the linux readdir bug |
Date: | Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:33:43 -0400 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) |
Jim Meyering wrote:
Here are two reasons: - lack of convincing arguments: any program that runs "ls -i non-directory ..." is not affected at all.
Of course it is effected -- it takes much longer to run.
- lack of evidence that users would be adversely affected: the only program alleged to be impacted is one that (so far) I've found no reference to, so I suspect very few people use it.
Every single time that ls -i is run, by anyone, or anything, anywhere, EVER, it will be slower with this change. That's adversely effecting every user, which is a lot more than one.
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