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From:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:12:04 -0500
To:	Chris Faylor <cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Cygwin performance (was [ANN] PW32 the...)
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In-Reply-To:	<2788.000315@logos-m.ru>; from deo@logos-m.ru on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 06:55:44PM +0300

On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 06:55:44PM +0300, Egor Duda wrote:
>CF>         chattr --stat-lite ls.exe
>
>well, perhaps that's a way. but anyway, i think that application author or
>porter should be able to "set" this flag on per-call-basis. if in some
>function he don't need inode, nlinks, but only st_size and st_atime he
>can give "stat" a hint.

Sure.  I was looking for a way to change things globally without
recompiling.  Probably "ls" was a bad example for this.

cgf

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