Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:02:02 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin performance Message-ID: <20031022200202.GA25720@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3F95B7DE.90601@tlinx.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:40:10PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: >> From: Linda W. >> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 12:49 AM > >> >>Perhaps it is unavoidable, but I see things like find doing 2 >> >>'opens' /file when it is searching for files...can't it just do a >> >>'stat' of some nature? does it need to do an open, let alone 2? > > I believe that the major culprit is looking for executable files. If I have >understood things correctly. > >$ mount -h | grep exe > -x, --executable treat all files under mount point as executables > -E, --no-executable treat all files under mount point as > non-executables > -X, --cygwin-executable treat all files under mount point as > cygwin executables > >I've not tried this, but anyway: I wonder what happens if one uses the >sequence; > > umount /blaha > mount -E / -X / -x "MS-PATH" /blaha > find /blaha ... > umount /blaha > mount -bs "MS-PATH" /blaha The syntax would be: mount -f -E x:/foo /foo foo can be a directory or a file, as always. This will force cygwin to believe that the file is not executable. Although, hmm. I just tried this and bash still executed a file that should be non-executable. I'll have to see why. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/