From: "Laurynas Biveinis" <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 22:27:11 +0200
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Subject: Re: Add d_type member to struct dirent
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> +	/* This could or could not be a symlink.  Since we don't want
> +	   to pay the price of finding out, we return DT_UNKNOWN, and
> +	   the application is supposed to stat the file in response.  */
> +	dir->de.d_type = DT_UNKNOWN;

This scenario in comment isn't the fastest one - the fastest
way to check out for symlinkiness is __internal_readlink(),
not *stat(). So if application really stat unknown files, I suggest
doing __internal_readlink() here.

Laurynas