I think you are on to the correct explanation, at least from what I read on the Sun/Bugs site. It seems to be related to caching the file information.
However, as the facts stand it's much slower over the network, so to return to the original post - does anyone have a solution or workaround? On Jan 7, 12:09 am, Christian Catchpole <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is my "guess" as to what is happening (I had a quick look at the > bug ticket but couldn't see an explanation). > > And I haven't written this sort of code in C for a while, so this is > an extra big guess. > > When you get a dir list in Java it creates a list of File objects > which are just paths to the file. Calling isDirectory() forces is to > go back the the network because it doesn't have any kind of real > handle on the OS object which represents the file. > > In C, when you get a directory list, do you get a list of "handles to > OS objects" which can be polled immediately for an attribute?
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