hg diff: why is it listing the directories?

[Alexis S. L. Carvalho]

Thus spake Guido Ostkamp:
> > Yes, thanks! What about avoiding the getdirents altogether?
> 
> My investigations show that the two remaining getdents() are lookups 
> during for the Python package directories during the Python startup and 
> most likely cannot be avoided.

You're probably trying "hg diff file".  If you try just "hg diff",
you'll see many other getdents.

(And if you see only 2 getdents, then your python instalation is
probably leaner than mine :-) )

Alexis