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To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.30 List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: Dan Shelton via Cygwin Reply-To: Dan Shelton Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "Cygwin" Hello, Why does Cygwin always use absolute paths instead of OBJECT_ATTRIBUTES.RootDirectory in NtOpenFile(), NtSetInformationFile() for rename and hardlinks This slows down Cygwin path lookups a lot, and with lots of path elements each lookup with a relative RootDirectory might be a lot faster, e.g. for openat(), linkat(), renameat(). Dan -- Dan Shelton - Cluster Specialist Win/Lin/Bsd -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple