Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Friday 06 June 2008 22:13, Ralf Friedl wrote:
>
>> In case of "ls" without options, readdir() without lstat would be
>> enough, if busybox would not do colored output by default.
>>
>
> Well, this is true only if you want a bare list of files.
> No coloring, no file type suffixes ("dir/"), no recursion (-R),
> no file info (-l).
>
> In other words, this is an optimization which is "nice to have"
> but in real world usage it won't happen to be used as often
> as one might want.
>
I know, and I didn't want to imply that busybox should be changed. It
was just a possible explanation why this might have been considered a
busybox problem in the original message.
> Back to "NFS stall" question: readdir will stall as readily as lstat
> if the NFS server is down.
>
I agree that the NFS server is the main problem and it's not a problem
of busybox can solve.
Regards
Ralf Friedl
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