Brendan Gregg wrote about this a few years ago [1]. My favorite part: > WTF?? Why is ls(1) running stat() on /etc/localtime for every line of output? [1] htt

Brendan Gregg wrote about this a few years ago [1]. My favorite part: > WTF?? Why is ls(1) running stat() on /etc/localtime for every line of output? [1] http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-11/strace-wow-much-syscall.html http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-11/strace-wow-much-...