Re: [PATCH] Use access instead of stat in hashdir

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

On Feb 6,  8:20am, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>
> On Feb 6,  6:43pm, Raghavendra D Prabhu wrote:
> } 
> } I found that using access instead of two stat calls results in 
> } faster rehash when it is done. I came across this when I noticed 
> } too many stat calls while 'strace -c' 
> 
> }              if (unset(HASHEXECUTABLESONLY) ||
> } -                   (stat(pathbuf, &statbuf) == 0 &&
> } -                    S_ISREG(statbuf.st_mode) && (statbuf.st_mode & S_IXUGO)))
> } +                   !access(pathbuf,X_OK))
> }                  add = 1;
> }          }

In Src/exec.c the function iscom():

int
iscom(char *s)
{
    struct stat statbuf;
    char *us = unmeta(s);

    return (access(us, X_OK) == 0 && stat(us, &statbuf) >= 0 &&
	    S_ISREG(statbuf.st_mode));
}

So let's see if we can get some speed out of this:

Index: Src/hashtable.c
===================================================================
diff -c -r1.20 Src/hashtable.c
--- hashtable.c	1 Jun 2011 06:40:00 -0000	1.20
+++ hashtable.c	6 Feb 2012 16:49:24 -0000
@@ -663,8 +663,10 @@
 		 * This is the same test as for the glob qualifier for
 		 * executable plain files.
 		 */
-		if (stat(pathbuf, &statbuf) == 0 &&
-		    S_ISREG(statbuf.st_mode) && (statbuf.st_mode & S_IXUGO))
+		if (unset(HASHEXECUTABLESONLY) ||
+		    (access(pathbuf, X_OK) == 0 &&
+		     stat(pathbuf, &statbuf) == 0 &&
+		     S_ISREG(statbuf.st_mode) && (statbuf.st_mode & S_IXUGO)))
 		    add = 1;
 	    }
 	    if (add) {

The S_IXUGO test may now be redundant, but hardly worth skipping.