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Re: ftw visited ino+devno
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Kevin Ryde |
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Re: ftw visited ino+devno |
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Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:45:28 +1000 |
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Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:
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> Is it worth commenting that the use of dev+ino (as opposed to
> pathname) avoids traversing hard links (notably . and ..) multiple
> times, or is that too obvious?
Yep, that's noted in the manual.
Personally I'd think seeing linked files multiple times in a tree walk
might actually be a good thing sometimes. But I'm not going to change
the design.