Bug 11196

Summary: ls can call lstat for each file in a directory unnecessarily
Product: Busybox Reporter: John Ata <john.ata>
Component: OtherAssignee: unassigned
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal CC: busybox-cvs
Priority: P5    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description John Ata 2018-07-25 21:28:13 UTC
The busybox ls command can call lstat unnecessarily.  For example, "ls --color=none" or "ls -x --color=none" displays filenames only and does not need lstat for that.