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Date:	Thu, 27 Dec 2001 18:18:35 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Tim Van Holder wrote:

> Yes, but it's no different for Win32 apps; "dir \\foo\bar" also takes
> a long time to return, and having UNCs in PATH can _really_ slow the
> command prompt down.  It's a fact of live with UNCs; I don't why we
> should try to do better than the OS in that respect.

I don't care about the likes of "ls \\foo\bar"; that was just a quick 
(or, rather, a slow ;-) way to demonstrate what could happen.  My real 
concern is for programs that issue equivalent system calls: if you add to 
them some loop which walks all the possible devices trying to find the 
mapping, you will slow down the system calls to a crawl.

Not even a floppy is that slow, and with floppy, at least you hear it 
grinding, which gives you some clue about what's going on...

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