From: "Laurynas Biveinis" <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 19:52:42 +0200
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Add d_type member to struct dirent
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> > ...but in 99.9% cases __internal_readlink() will call just filelength()
> > to check for 510 bytes magic size. No open() at all in this case, and plain
> > filelength() is cheaper that stat(), isn't it?
> 
> ??? I don't have the latest CVS sources handy where I type this, but IIRC 
> filelength takes a handle, so __internal_readlink needs to open the file, 
> before it knows that it's 510 byte long.

What I forgot to tell is that __internal_readlink does findfirst() to
find out file size if it has path instead of the handle. Does my point
still hold true then?

Laurynas