diff -u: What's New in Kernel Development

Posted by bob on Mar 9, 2015 6:43 PM EDT
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Nicolas Dichtel and Thierry Herbelot pointed out that the directories in the /proc filesystem used a linked list to identify their files. But, this would be slow when /proc directories started having lots of files, which, for example, might happen when the system needed lots of network sockets.

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