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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 14:16:16 -0700
Subject: Re: Cygwin Performance and stat()
From: "Christopher Wingert" <mailbox AT wingert DOT org>
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I actually wrote my own rsync in AutoIt, but it is also limited.

However, I thought it would a nice addition to speed up Cygwin.  As I have
been using it for about 10 years and made my transition from Linux to
Windows so pleasant.


> On 4 June 2010 19:50, Eliot Moss wrote:
>> I don't think there's an objection here to
>> patching *rsync* specially in the cygwin
>> environment -- that would be between you
>> and the rsync port maintainer. The issue
>> is whether or not to make a more general
>> change to cygwin itself, and cgf is just
>> saying that that's hard to do.
>>
>> Conceivably we could come up with some
>> additional functions that cygwin ports
>> could use if they want to, but "out of
>> box" use of stat needs to replicate
>> full behavior since there's no way to
>> know what a given call of stat really
>> needs ...
>
> MKS has such a faster but limited version of stat:
>
> http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man3/_NutFastStat.3.asp
>
> Shame about the name.
>
> Andy
>
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