> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Polstra writes:
>
> >> ugh, why aren't you extending poll to work on files and directories to
> >> get this info?? it would make MUCH more sense to extend poll to do this..
> >>
> >> any specific reason why it wasn't done this way?
> >
> >Yes. Last time I checked, our CVS repository contained 50,000 files
> >in 13,000 directories. Somehow the thought of a 63,000-element pollfd
> >array leaves me cold.
>
> Sounds like something Bruce would do :-)
He can try it on the repository here:
$ find . -type d | wc -l
8764
$ find . -type f | wc -l
586382
$
It would be one expensive call with that many elements to scan...
>
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