From: dumser AT ti DOT com (James Dumser)
Subject: Re: Stat() call speed-up
31 Mar 1997 16:48:58 -0800
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In-Reply-To: <01BC3C50.DC81DE00@sos> from "Sergey Okhapkin" at Mar 29, 97 02:52:44 pm
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On Sat, 29 Mar 1997 14:52:44 +0300, you wrote:
>Yes, my game with archive bit wasn't good. For a now a have a new patch 
>(with the same idea), but it uses Extended Attributes of files to save 
>"executable" and "symlink" flags. This patch works on NT only (both ntfs 
>and fat), and does nothing on Windows 95. If anybody are interesting in 
>this patch, I'll post it here.
>
>BTW, EA can be used in cygwin.dll for some other purposes. To save case 
>sensitive names, for example :-)

I'm interested. Did you modify the "creation" side of things (e.g., the
system calls behind chmod +x & ln -s) or are you still relying on a
script to set those bits?

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James Dumser    972-462-5335 dumser AT ti DOT com
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