Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 09:19:44 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Erik L. Jensen" <eljensen AT online DOT no>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: 1 bug(?) open/readdir & glob
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On 20 Sep 1996, Erik L. Jensen wrote:

> A readir() followed by stat() is much more complicated (try going throug
> the stat() code) and
> does little more than findxxx anyway..

`stat' does *much* more than this.  However, if you want only the basic 
info that findfirst returns, and you want the source to be portable, you 
can use the `_djstat_bits' variable (described in the libc on-line docs) 
to make `stat' very fast.