Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Is any file system on Linux appropriate for very large directories? | From | Matthias Urlichs <> | Date | Wed, 17 Jul 1996 05:27:06 +0200 (MET DST) |
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Hi,
>Matthias Urlichs said this, and I just had to respond: >> >> If anybody really does their lookups with opendir()/readdir(), they deserve >> to lose. > >Well, enlighten me then, because I've been using them. I thought they were >the standard portable way to scan the contents of directories. What do YOU >use?
I said "lookups", not "scans"... the difference being that I want to look up a specific file. In that case I can just try to open or stat it.
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