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Subject: Re: Tomorrow
From: Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>
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On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 17:35, Ethan Benson wrote:

> 
> never said to.  said to keep that support in userspace where it
> currently is, and currently belongs.
> 

Unfortunately some folks get upset about performance of having
to do a readdir each time you look up a name. Since this is really
the only way user space can do it.

Steve