Re: dired and ls

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> If we instead had `directory-files-with-attributes' in C, we could just do
> what "ls" does, which is... opening the directory, reading it, and then
> statting all the files. (I just straced "ls -l".) So it should be just as
> fast? I think? And if you have your dired set up not to show ownership, date
> or file permissions, you don't even have to stat anything on Linux/BSD --
> the d_type says whether something is a file or a directory directly.

The /bin/ls process is asynchronous, so a really long "ls -R" listing doesn't
need to block Emacs, does it?

> Hm... and there are a lot of functions in Emacs that only wants to know the
> file name and whether it's a directory or not... I mean, basically every
> file prompting function only needs that info...

Are you also suggesting another improvement (Rubs hands expectantly)?  Or does
this follow from the above, in which case I missed the implication...

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