On 2015-04-24 21:41:41 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > > This is now done in my script, but I had to use the ReadDir module > > from CPAN, since both readdir implementations in Perl (the standard > > readdir Perl function and POSIX::readdir) just return the file name. > > And this ReadDir module isn't available in a Debian package. > > Python's library function listdir suffers the same way. If you want > the inode, you have to call stat to get it. (I haven't looked for > external modules like ReadDir as I don't have very large directories.)
I haven't tried, but I don't think that a stat call would solve the problem: most stat information isn't in the directory entries, thus it will have to be loaded from disk in some arbitrary order, just like if the first block of a file were read (which is precisely what I want to avoid at this moment). And even in the case where all the data are in the cache, an additional stat call could be inefficient on very large directories. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150427074409.ga3...@ypig.lip.ens-lyon.fr
