From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:18:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Avoid doing extra 'lstat()'s for d_type if we have an up-to-date cache entry
Message-ID: <7vskh646bw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907081942380.3352@localhost.localdomain>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 19:31:49 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Avoid doing extra 'lstat()'s for d_type if we have an up-to-date cache entry
>
> On filesystems without d_type, we can look at the cache entry first.
> Doing an lstat() can be expensive.

Thanks.

I was wondering if we could also say that D exists as a directory when we
know there is D/F in the index and is up to date.