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DateWed, 23 Jun 1999 13:54:55 +0200
FromRagnar Hojland Espinosa <>
SubjectRe: (reiserfs) Re: I discussed reading directories as files with jra, Stallman, and
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 06:11:00PM -0700, Bill Huey wrote:
> Things like .so file in /usr/lib, icons in /usr/something/ will be automatically
> skipped since this stuff is contained within the application or OS resource fork,
> so the search space for a particular file under HFS is much smaller in MacOS
> than with Win32/Unix since everything is treated as a file within those OSes.
>
> That's why a rather broken MacOS can search for a file name much faster than
> Win32/Unix, because there aren't that many files to search in the first place.

Your example is hardly convicent to me, because a quick look to find(1)
gives out:

a .' at the start of the base name. To ignore a directory and
the files under it, use -prune; see an example in the description
of -path.

IMO if a user wants to search the whole fs, it's their problem.

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