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This seems to be conflating caching the contents of directories and caching the names of files. One is perfectly fine. One relies on sketchy invariants that I
by Ericson2314 3y ago
This seems to be conflating caching the contents of directories and caching the names of files.
One is perfectly fine. One relies on sketchy invariants that I fine distasteful.
- cryptonector 3y agoYes. There's the-kernel-knows-open-files'-names and the-kernel-has-a-cache-of-absolute-paths and the-kernel-has-a-cache-for-in-core-directories. There's a large variety of ways to do this with one or multiple caches.
- Ericson2314 3y agoI am a capsicum true believer who wants to use file descriptors for everything, and hardlink directories all day.