Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 22:49:29 -0400 (EDT) From: "John W. DeBoskey" <jwd@unx.sas.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Subject: Re: An FS question perhaps... non blocking I/O. Message-ID: <199909180249.WAA25039@bb01f39.unx.sas.com> In-Reply-To: From Poul-Henning Kamp at "Sep 17, 1999 6: 2:38 pm"
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> In message <XFMail.990917085310.jdp@polstra.com>, 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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