Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 15:25:07 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org, Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: make cleanworld Message-ID: <03A12F28-FC6A-479F-9F94-A12E3D7EEE1F@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20111108215549.GA44260@freebsd.org> References: <20111108204912.GA34155@freebsd.org> <4EB9A268.5020805@FreeBSD.org> <20111108215549.GA44260@freebsd.org>
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On Nov 8, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Alexander Best wrote:
> find -flags +XXX /usr/obj/usr/git-freebsd-head -exec chflags -R 0 {} +
> rm/obj/usr/git-freebsd-head/*
>
> that should only execute chflags(1) on those files with flags set.
THat's only faster if the entire directory tree says in the directory cache. It isn't so much about chflags being called N times, but having to look at N files twice.
Warner
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