From:	andrewd AT axonet DOT com DOT au (Andrew Dalgleish)
Subject:	RE: New winsup snapshot 9/14/98
18 Sep 1998 14:53:53 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<91A8FD196436D1118EC2006008186C960D2ADE.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@server1.axonet.com.au>
To:	cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

> /__cygwin__/usr/bin would be hidden and would mirror /usr/bin except
> that the files associated with filenames would contain only with
> permission and device information.
[Andrew Dalgleish]  
Do you really want to allocate a whole cluster (possibly 64k) for each
file just to hold a few permission flags etc?
I vote for a single hidden index file.
It may not be as fast or as pretty as NTEA's, but it's simpler and much
more portable.

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