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Doing anything with large numbers of files used to be very painful on Linux prior to Linux 2.6.4 when they added getdents().

• wglb 3y ago
  From the man page "These are not the interfaces you are interested in."
  • tyingq 3y ago
    Ah, yes. Meaning the performance enhancements that came with it, though you're supposed to use the posixy api that wraps this, rather than using this syscall directly.
    • wglb 3y ago
      I just thought the wording was amusing--a faint reference to droids.