ls: allow stat-free use of --color

Even on a system with d_type support, the default use of --color
makes ls stat every file in order to be able to honor settings like
EXEC, STICKY, ORPHAN, SETUID, etc., because those settings require
information that is not provided by dirent.d_type.  However, if
for a potentially large performance gain, you are willing to disable
those settings, you can now make ls --color give type-related coloring
and perform no stat calls at all (other than the unavoidable call-per-
command-line argument).  Before this change, even with all of those
attributes disabled, ls --color would still stat every directory.
Now, we're down to the minimum of one stat call per command-line arg.
* src/ls.c (gobble_file): With --color, don't stat a
non-command-line-specified directory when no directory-coloring
attribute is enabled.
* tests/init.cfg (require_dirent_d_type_): New function.
* tests/d_type-check: New script, mostly from Pádraig Brady.
* tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add it.
* tests/ls/stat-free-color: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
* doc/coreutils.texi (General output formatting): Describe how
to use dircolors to make ls --color refrain from calling stat
on a d_type-enabled file system.
Prompted by a query from Josef Bacik.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/ls.c b/src/ls.c
index 4262923ce..54876ce42 100644
--- a/src/ls.c
+++ b/src/ls.c
@@ -2740,7 +2740,10 @@ gobble_file (char const *name, enum filetype type, ino_t inode,
       /* When coloring a directory (we may know the type from
          direct.d_type), we have to stat it in order to indicate
          sticky and/or other-writable attributes.  */
-      || (type == directory && print_with_color)
+      || (type == directory && print_with_color
+          && (is_colored (C_OTHER_WRITABLE)
+              || is_colored (C_STICKY)
+              || is_colored (C_STICKY_OTHER_WRITABLE)))
       /* When dereferencing symlinks, the inode and type must come from
          stat, but readdir provides the inode and type of lstat.  */
       || ((print_inode || format_needs_type)