Re: using Linux getdents syscall

The simplest thing to do is to compile the C program and run it from your Perl program. Use qx(), or open my $pipe, '-|', '/your/c/program', and just read its output. Unless I'm missing something, I don't see any reason to use Perl's syscall, unpack structs, allocate buffers and do other complicated things.

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Re^2: using Linux getdents syscall by afoken (Chancellor) on Nov 24, 2015 at 07:00 UTC
So, you think that starting an external process just to list directories has LESS overhead than opendir/readdir/closedir? Sorry, but that is nonsense! See Re: using Linux getdents syscall Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]
Re^2: using Linux getdents syscall by glasswalk3r (Friar) on Nov 24, 2015 at 12:12 UTC
I would rather remove the file from inside the C code and avoid doing another system call with Perl... but there is no fun in doing that. Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior --------------------------------- "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Sir Winston Churchill	[reply]