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 15:06:36 -0500 Message-Id: <200102132006.PAA09417@envy.delorie.com> X-Authentication-Warning: envy.delorie.com: dj set sender to dj@envy.delorie.com using -f From: DJ Delorie To: jik@curl.com CC: cygwin@cygwin.com In-reply-to: <20010213195637.17813.qmail@lizard.curl.com> (message from Jonathan Kamens on 13 Feb 2001 14:56:37 -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> <20010213195637.17813.qmail@lizard.curl.com> > > 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? $ mount --h ... -x treat all files under mount point as executables. > 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. winsup/utils/mount.cc sets it. defines MOUNT_CYGWIN_EXEC but look for PATH_ALL_EXEC to see where it's relevent (in path.{cc,h}). -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple