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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ls, rc question -- proposed change to rc/glob.c
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 02:30:31 +0100
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> The hack is in libc/gen/opendir.c. Quoting from there:
>                 /*
>                  * The strategy here is to read all the directory
>                  * entries into a buffer, sort the buffer, and
>                  * remove duplicate entries by setting the inode
>                  * number to zero.
>                  */
> Only bloating the kernel with a sort/uniq filter could be worse than that.

pure bsd.

i can't see the point in adding more code to handle end cases.

large N% of the time it's not a problem, so Leave It Alone:

    http://www.lyricsdepot.com/living-colour/leave-it-alone.html