Slows starting of downloading with KIO

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David Faure wrote:

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>>Stupid question: does a recursive listing require stating in KIO?
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>Yes and no (the question doesn't make sense from a KIO point of view :)
>Listing calls listDir(), stating calls stat(), so technically listing is not stating.
>However in practice for FTP, stating means listing and extracting one line from it,
>so both operations are similar, except listing is done in one go, and stating is
>done for every url so it's slower.
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Does that mean that kio-ftp has to list the whole directory for every 
stat call?

Thus downloading 10 files from a ftp directory would mean that the 
directory is listed 20 times...

Norbert