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From: Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>
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Subject: Re: webcam viewer?
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On 4/1/24 04:19, Don Y wrote:
[...]

> Common sense -- do you think a list of files in a
> directory is produced by reading every file in its entirety in order
> to be able to report their individual sizes??
> 

On Linux, when I do something in a directory that contains a
mountpoint to a remote file system, it often slows to a crawl.
I suspect it tries to stat() every damn remote file, despite
doing nothing useful with the data. GUI 'open' or 'save' dialogs
are the worst offenders. I have to be careful not to stray into
such directories using GUI programs. This is a nuisance.

A traditonal command shell does not usually misbehave in that
way, fortunately.

Jeroen Belleman