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[$] Why glibc's fstat() is slow
Thursday September 14, 2023. 06:29 PM , from LWN.net
The fstat()
system call retrieves some of the metadata — owner, size, protections, timestamps, and so on — associated with an open file descriptor. One might not think of it as a performance-critical system call, but there are workloads that make a lot of fstat() calls; it is not something that should be slowed unnecessarily. As it turns out, though, the GNU C Library (glibc) has been doing exactly that, but a fix is in the works.
https://lwn.net/Articles/944214/
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