From: Tracey Emery Subject: Re: got rm trim dirs To: gameoftrees@openbsd.org, ori@eigenstate.org, stsp@stsp.name Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 20:36:24 -0700 On March 4, 2020 4:55:18 PM MST, ori@eigenstate.org wrote: >> Just one more before we revert to something like the first patch. >Using >> scandir, we can avoid the race as we iterate the directories. But, >> perhaps this operation is too expensive on large dirs, since there >would >> be a lot of malloc and freeing for each file. > >I suspect mallocs and frees will be lost in the noise of actually >accessing the file system. Indeed! -- Tracey Emery