Deleting large directory structures is very slow

[dandv]

When recursively deleting a directory with many subdirectories, MC shows the progress of the entire operation file by file. This is at least an order of magnitude slower than rm -rf target.

GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.19
Built with GLib 2.53.4
Using the S-Lang library with terminfo database
With builtin Editor
With subshell support as default
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
With support for X11 events
With internationalization support
With multiple codepages support
Virtual File Systems: cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ext2undelfs, ftpfs, sftpfs, fish
Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 64; void *: 64; size_t: 64; off_t: 64;

[andrew_b]

MC shows the progress of the entire operation file by file.

It takes some time to redraw the screen.

This is at least an order of magnitude slower than rm -rf target.

Does rm -rf show any info?

[andrew_b]

Branch: 3958_slow_dir_delete
changeset:1971dd6ba7987a1de88fe2b69d33338c6b21cf76

Please test.

[andrew_b]

Merged to master: [8196833781d3eca3eccc7502c767b1e3024c0f91].