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Re^4: failing to use getdents system call on Linuxby glasswalk3r (Friar) |
on Nov 04, 2016 at 00:26 UTC ( [id://1175271]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I'll try to do those suggestions and see what happens next. About substr, I am already using it... so I'm not sure what do you mean by using it to emulate the C pointer. Even though I'm modifying the original buffer, I would expect that I would get at least the first entry correctly... I played around with unpack, but my guess is that I just don't have the same data on the perl buffer (neither identify what is being available over there, my guess is that I missing a long integer. This is to solve a very specific problem with NFS exports: some directories got clobbered with so many files (above 300k) that even listing them with ls takes a lot of time. Unfortunately, I don't have root access to evaluate what is going over there, but using getdents allow me to get the list of files much more quickly. That's what I need in most cases (I'll simply remove the files from there, no need to stat them.readdir() presents the same issues as ls.
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