Subject: RE: Stat() call speed-up
From: [email-masked] (Sergey Okhapkin)

30 Mar 1997 03:44:44 -0800
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Jim Balter wrote:
> > Yes, my game with archive bit wasn't good. For a now a have a new patch
> > (with the same idea), but it uses Extended Attributes of files to save
> > "executable" and "symlink" flags. This patch works on NT only (both 
ntfs
> > and fat), and does nothing on Windows 95. If anybody are interesting in
> > this patch, I'll post it here.
>
> I'm sure we're interested.
>
> How does EA work for FAT?  Isn't that an NTFS feature?

Yes, EA works for FAT (the same way like in OS/2 - EAs are stored in file 
"ea data. sf" in volume root directory). This patch also adds statfs() and 
fstatfs() syscalls to cygwin.dll, so add this two exports to cygwin.def.

--
Sergey Okhapkin
Moscow, Russia
Looking for a job

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