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: 13 Feb 2001 14:56:37 -0500 Message-ID: <20010213195637.17813.qmail@lizard.curl.com> From: Jonathan Kamens To: dj@delorie.com CC: cygwin@cygwin.com In-reply-to: <200102131954.OAA09284@envy.delorie.com> (message from DJ Delorie on Tue, 13 Feb 2001 14:54:01 -0500) Subject: Re: Optimizing away "ReadFile" calls when Make calls stat() References: <4.3.1.2.20010213134821.019a7130@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <20010213190131.14369.qmail@lizard.curl.com> <200102131935.OAA09136@envy.delorie.com> <20010213194612.17311.qmail@lizard.curl.com> <200102131954.OAA09284@envy.delorie.com> > Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 14:54:01 -0500 > From: DJ Delorie > > Perhaps you could > propose a set of mount flags to optimize common situations? We > already have one to avoid the read-for-execute test, Could you elaborate on that? > perhaps you could > work on an assume-no-symlinks flag? Then we wouldn't need a custom > make.exe (or any other program). I think that's a very good idea. If you tell me a little bit more about the read-for-execute mount flag, with which I'm not familiar, I can look into implementing a similar thing for symbolic links. Thanks, jik -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple