UPDATE: Fixed lost first line, thnx BrowserUk

Works for me with reiserfs. The first time run it with 'c' as an argument, then run it repeatedly and I get 500002 everytime. (Remember the . and .. ) 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use File::Path;

if( (defined $ARGV[0]) and ($ARGV[0] eq 'c')) {
  
   my $dir = 'dir'; 
   mkpath($dir) || die "no permission to $dir?";     

  foreach my $filenum (1..500000){
  open FH, "> ./dir/$filenum" or warn "$!\n";
  close FH;
  }
}


chdir "dir" or die "Couldn't chdir $!\n";
opendir(D, ".") or die "Couldnt open $!\n";

my $count = 0;

while (my $file = readdir D) {
   $count++;
}

print "$count\n";

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In reply to Re: readdir inconsistent! by zentara
in thread readdir inconsistent! by LostShootingStar

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