illumos gate

Some numbers:

sirius:yuri:~$ time for i in `seq 1 10`; do /usr/bin/find src/illumos/illumos-gate/ > /dev/null; done
real    0m31.085s
user    0m2.289s
sys     0m28.558s

sirius:yuri:~$ time for i in `seq 1 10`; do ~/ws/local/usr/src/cmd/find/find src/illumos/illumos-gate/ > /dev/null; done
real    0m34.175s
user    0m2.319s
sys     0m31.732s

You'd need, at the very least, to be careful about:

• The behaviour of -exec (which you'd change if you didn't make doexec() chdir instead
• The various symlink-following implications if any (see also, the various trickery done in rm to try to avoid people fooling it, presuming that this is also necessary for find).

-exec explicitly disables FTW_CHDIR

                case EXEC:
                case OK:
                        walkflags &= ~FTW_CHDIR;

The comments about exec and symlinks were separate.

My concern with links is whether it would in any way affect when and where find is willing to chase a link. I don't think it will, but we should check.

Rich Lowe wrote:

The comments about exec and symlinks were separate.

They aren't so separate as you meant them to be, as -exec disables FTW_CHDIR, and I don't think -exec changing behaviour of symlinks handling would be accepted (trying to rephrase my reply...).

My concern with links is whether it would in any way affect when and where find is willing to chase a link. I don't think it will, but we should check.

Ok.