From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2008-01-12T03:14:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Counting the files in a directory....

Entries seems to be fairly identical to collect, and it does look nicer...
but yea still slow.

The problem with caching is that we only keep quarantine directories
around for 10 days, due to their size and the relative rarity of us
needing to pull something out of it.  One reason for writing this as a
script is that we recover rarely enough that whoever is doing it
forgot how to recover.  Still, it's often enough that we want to be
able to do it easily.

In other cases than a mail system, caching would be a very good idea though.

I'll try and read more of the C stuff for handling files/directories
in unix.  I can hold out hope for awhile.

Thanks,
          Kyle