[RFC] speed up walk of working dir by 20-25%

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:18:51AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> >Not an unreasonable thing to do. But is this portable to anything but 
> >Linux?
> >  
> I think *BSD supports it.  If d_type is present and not DT_UNKNOWN then 
> it can be relied on; otherwise just fall back to using lstat.

Yes, that sounds familiar.

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