Re: making GNU ls -i (--inode) work around the linux readdir bug

[Phillip Susi]

Micah Cowan wrote:
> He means that there _is_ no optimization. When you're applying ls -i
> directly to files ("ls -i non-directory", the scenario he mentioned as
> not being affected), there is no readdir, there are no directory
> entries, and so there is no optimization to be made. A call to stat is
> required. There is no effect to reduce.
>
> I may be completely off-base here, but that's how I read it, at least
> (how do you get inode info from dir entries you don't have?!).

<facepalm/>

Of course... I wasn't keying in on the non-directory argument for some 
reason.... I was taking that as indicating that you were still doing an 
ls -i in a directory that *contained* non directory children.