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See further down the thread, the right solution is to impact ALL cygwin executables, but I don't have the experience in the dll to make those changes. > On 6/4/2010 2:20 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> "But providing a variant of stat() along the lines of what you propose >>> above is not practical for all the reasons already stated." >> This is not something that I said. That was actually Larry Hall. > > Heh. Who needs him anyway! > > Just to clarify, this comment was in response to Chris Wingerts' assertion > (<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-06/msg00033.html>) that it would be > worthwhile to provide some kind of switch to selectively disable the > expensive parts of stat(). And my point was that this had already been > discounted as a transparent way of addressing the performance problem > because it would still be up to the user or application to determine when > to make this trade-off > (<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-05/msg00751.html>). > This is the same conclusion Chris Wingert has now come to as well and > stated > in <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-06/msg00121.html>: > > All that being said, I think the best solution is not to optimize the > dll > stat(), but to do it at the executable level. I see that Cygwin > already > has some level of patches at this level, it shouldn't be too difficult > to > support. > > So we're all back on the same page now. :-) > > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX > Holliston, MA 01746 > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > A: Yes. >> Q: Are you sure? >>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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