Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 14:47:05 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Optimizing away "ReadFile" calls when Make calls stat() Message-ID: <20010213144705.C12411@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20010213183634.1435.qmail@lizard.curl.com> <4.3.1.2.20010213134821.019a7130@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20010213134821.019a7130@pop.ma.ultranet.com>; from lhall@rfk.com on Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:51:50PM -0500 On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:51:50PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: >At 01:36 PM 2/13/2001, Jonathan Kamens wrote: >>Please comment. > > > >I know this would only address half the problem but I wonder if it would make >sense to cache the results of ReadFile() so that separate checks for symbolic >links and executables would result in only 1 ReadFile() call. This seems >like a nice general optimization which wouldn't be so "gross"... Actually, I wonder if just mounting the directory with the execute bit set ("mount -x c:\bin /bin") would solve this. It would cause every file to be considered executable but it may bypass the ReadFile. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple