From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11199 invoked from network); 3 Jun 1999 20:56:47 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 3 Jun 1999 20:56:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 26203 invoked by alias); 3 Jun 1999 20:56:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6454 Received: (qmail 26196 invoked from network); 3 Jun 1999 20:56:40 -0000 To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: MAIL, MAILPATH and maildir support References: <19990603000030.A20027@dman.com> <990603054646.ZM2687@candle.brasslantern.com> From: Bruce Stephens Date: 03 Jun 1999 20:18:20 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Bart Schaefer"'s message of "Thu, 3 Jun 1999 05:46:46 +0000" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.070084 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.84) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii "Bart Schaefer" writes: > I was about to gripe about how horribly inefficient this bit of code > is, when I realized I'd forgotten that the existing support for > directories is if anything worse. Recursively stat() an entire > directory tree?? Does anyone really make use of this feature? Well, in a limited way, yes. I have procmail deliver to a number of files in a specific directory, and zsh checks that directory. I'm sure I'm not that unusual (I think it's a reasonably popular way to set up Gnus, for example).