Ignore this - the perf hit on calling readlink is pretty small, even if
I call it on every file in the directory.
Still interested in why I'm seeing this, but not for resolving the issue
I (was) banging my head over.
> -----Original Message-----
> Hiya -
>
> Playing with BSD File routines & it seems that *every* file I
> retrieve info on via readdir that isn't a directory or a
> pipe/fifo has "DT_LNK"
> set.
>
> I would have thought that this should only be set for
> symbolic links (cannot be sure, since sys/dirent.h doesn't
> elaborate on the enums listed, and I can find nothing on this
> via google.
>
> Should I maybe be using something other than readdir to grab
> the contents of a directory ? At this point I'm looking for
> file name, and the type of stuff that (I thought) was
> included in dirent's d_type (whether something is a
> directory, pipe, link or 'regular' file).
>
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