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On 14-Feb-2006, Eric Blake wrote:

| so it is a
| bug in octave if it is mis-optimizing traversal in the presence of a
| directory link count of 1.  It might make sense, though, for cygwin to set
| the link count to 0 on remote directories (rather than 1), to make it
| obvious that the link count really is unknown, but this still does not
| take the blame off of octave for the mis-optimization.

If we are playing the blame game, then let's assign some of the blame
to the kpathsearch library, which is the basis for Octave's path
searching code.

jwe

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