You could imagine determining from the parsed expression whether or not stat'ing was required.

NFS has readdirplus, but I don't think it ever made its way into Linux/POSIX. (Some filesystems could efficiently return dirents + stat information.)

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nasretdinov 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> readdirplus

Well, it definitely does _something_, because on NFS the subsequent stat() calls after reading the directory names do indeed complete instantly :), at least in my testing.

	▲	loeg 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I mean, readdirplus as a local filesystem API. Ultimately unix programs are just invoking getdents() (or equivalent) + stat() (or statx, whatever). Linux nfsclient probably caches the result of readdirplus for subsequent stat.