Re: readdir vs. getattr

Jim Rees
2013-04-04T16:35:33Z

Myklebust, Trond wrote:

On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 12:01 -0400, Jim Rees wrote:
> Chuck Lever wrote:
>
> > So is this a "ls -l"? Because for "ls" it shouldn't stat all the files.
>
> Default these days is ls --color
>
> No it's not, at least not on linux. From the man page:
>
> "Using color to distinguish file types is disabled both by default and with
> --color=never."

Yes, but a number of Linux distros override that in /etc/profile. For
instance all Red Hat/Fedora distros have aliases for ls that map them to
'ls --color=auto'

I was actually just trying to figure out whether the application (ls) was
doing all those file stats, or whether readdir was somehow doing them by
mistake. Sounds like it's the application.