Using madvise for ld.so

[Martijn Klingens]

On Wednesday 17 March 2004 20:39, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> I once heard that some tools use the trick of accessing files in
> inode-number order. I'm not aware how you can retrieve the inode (like for
> stat order) without stat'ing though..

Isn't this what e.g. 'ls -f' does? It outputs the dir listing without sorting, 
which to me sounds like using inode order.

I once had to list a folder with 200.000 (!) files at work on a Windows box, 
and smbmounting the volume from Linux and using 'ls -f' was one of the few 
approaches that worked on that ridiculously large folder.

-- 
Martijn