Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 11:38:18 -0500 From: Timothy Reaves Message-Id: <199903081638.LAA11084@y11a165.neo.rr.com> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Time taken for ls -la --color=yes >If you add the color or F switches then the CYGWIN1.DLL has to >determine the type of file. It will be opening every regular file >listed and reading a line from the file in order to determine the type >of the file. You can imagine the overhead involved in this. No, I guess I can't, as bash under unix does not take this long, and it would have to do the same thing. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com