Subject: RE: ls taking too long
From: "Chris January" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:15:31 -0000

> If a directory contains a large number of files (I have 
> >40000) where most of them are named such that the first 
> character is a "1" and you do an "ls x*" where only one of 
> the files begin with x, the ls takes an inordinate amount of 
> time, but going to a plain dos window and "dir e*" is really fast.
The cmd/dos window's filename filtering is done in the kernel, whereas
Cygwin's is done in user mode so every file is processed.

Chris

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