Re: stat very inefficient

David S. Miller
2004-07-28T22:54:47Z

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:33:59 +1000
Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> wrote:

> But is stat{,64} actually showing up badly in profiles?
> If it's not I don't think it's worth doing *anything* (I can imagine
> loads where it would, e.g., make on a large sourcetree, or running a
> backup)

"find . -type f" is probably the most often run command somewhere
in a shell pipeline when I'm doing kernel work and grepping
around.