X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4475E588.2040704@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 13:12:40 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051223 Fedora/1.5-0.2.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: slow share = slow scripts? References: <4474FCB5.9070906@cygwin.com> <4475C82B.9060207@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 mwoehlke wrote: > Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> On 05/25/2006, mwoehlke wrote: >>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>>> Take a look at the -x, -E, and -X flags of 'mount'. Perhaps these >>> will help >>>> you. >>> >>> Hmm, those are mutually contradictory... guess I'll "experiment". Out >>> of curiosity, what are any of these expected to do? >> >> They are indeed mutually exclusive. See 'man mount' for an >> explanation of the >> flags. You might want to try -x or -X. > > Right, I *was* looking at the man, which is why I was confused. It > doesn't say why this would help, though; does it somehow allow Cygwin to > skip the fstat() call? Also, why *is* fstat() so inefficient? Can > anything be done about it? -x and -X tell Cygwin to treat all files under that mount point (or the file itself, if that's what you gave to mount) as executable. That keeps Cygwin from needing to ask the file for this information, which would otherwise mean the file has to be opened to make the determination. > I *am* going to play with them, if I can convince Cygwin to let me > *un*mount the path. :-) You could use the '-f' flag to 'mount'. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/