Re^2: File::Find won't iterate through CIFS share withouth "dont_use

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The optimization only helps if you have empty directories (i.e. directories with no files except . and ..)

Erm, actually the optimisation is used to detect directories that contain no subdirectories (rather than that are empty directories). That way, for leaf node directories, you don't have to stat() every directory entry looking for possible subdirectories.

Dave.

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Re^3: File::Find won't iterate through CIFS share withouth "dont_use_nlink" by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 02, 2017 at 17:17 UTC
Oops, yeah. Ironically, the information `stat` is used to fetch is provided by the native equivalent of `readdir` in Windows, so using the native call instead of `readdir` would gain the effect of the optimization, and not just for leaf directories!	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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