On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> Alexander Viro wrote:
> > Adding the test will not hurt, indeed. Doing it accurately might be
> > tricky, though. E.g. ls -l sorts the entries. In userspace. So you'll have
> > to factor that out - I doubt that GNU ls does bogosort, but...
> 
> GNU ls stats in readdir order, so no bogosort.

Yes, but ls -l sorts the results. Which is the place where one might
insert interesting algorithms ;-) Seriously, I would not be surprised if
GNU ls had higher userland overhead than BSD one. I'll look them through
today.


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