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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:21:45 -0500
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Subject: Re: Cygwin performance (was [ANN] PW32 the...)
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In-Reply-To: <20000316173203.853C91F1F@sabami.seaslug.org>; from scott@sabmail.rresearch.com on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 09:32:03AM -0800

On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 09:32:03AM -0800, Scott Blachowicz wrote:
>Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de> wrote:
>> are you hardwired to 'ls', 'ls -l'  or (like me) 'll'?
>> My stock b20 'ls' spits out only filenames!
>
>I usually use 'ls -l', but what I really want (usually) is the filenames,
>sizes and mod times (and sometimes permissions). And, if I want that, I'll
>have to take the stat() penalty, I guess. So...I was curious...what is it in
>the stat() call that can only be obtained by opening the file? Is it just the
>cygnus stat() emulation that does that? One of these days, maybe I'll try out
>a native-Win32 perl 'ls' wrapper script...

The Windows API dictates that much of the information required to fill in a
stat structure can only come by querying an open file handle.

cgf

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