From: khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu (Mumit Khan)
Subject: b19: unlink (and hence "rm") takes forever
13 Mar 1998 22:52:19 -0800
Message-ID: <9803130041.AA25062.cygnus.gnu-win32@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu>
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
Cc: khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu

Anybody notice if unlinking or any other operation in a directory with
lots of files (say 600+) is *really* slow!!

While building Win32 export libraries, I noticed that building
libkernel32.a etc was taking hours on a fast machine, which took
just a few minutes under b19. The culprit turns out to be "unlink",
and deleting the 650+ files just never finish on NT 4.0 FAT system.

If I run dlltool with --nodelete and skip the unlinking of the temp
files, it finishes in minutes again, but it seems to be quite 
interdeteministic.

Anybody else seen such behaviour?

Mumit
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