From: Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...>
Date: 2002-06-22T06:16:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Are Unix tools just slow? (OT)

On 6/21/02 1:27 PM, "Paul Duncan" <pabs@pablotron.org> wrote:

> FAM uses polling on systems without kernel (eg Linux sans the imon
> patch) or dnotify support, and therefore is subject to the same speed
> considerations as find, stat, etc.
> 
> I'm flattered that my FAM bindings were mentioned, though. ;)

Darn! It was a good idea though. Searching for files that match a given
criterion is something that comes up a lot, for me anyway. A fast, portable,
Ruby way to do this would be great.

Someone else suggested just using find once and redirecting the output to a
table. Then Ruby could be used to search the table. Well, IIRC, they
suggested grep but Ruby would do as well.

This method has some merit, but you have to have a pretty good idea of your
search criteria in advance to make the table. The bigger problem, though, is
knowing when the table is out of date. Can FAM help with that?
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