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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 14:47:05 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Optimizing away "ReadFile" calls when Make calls stat()
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In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20010213134821.019a7130@pop.ma.ultranet.com>; from lhall@rfk.com on Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:51:50PM -0500

On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:51:50PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>At 01:36 PM 2/13/2001, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
>>Please comment.
>
>
>
>I know this would only address half the problem but I wonder if it would make
>sense to cache the results of ReadFile() so that separate checks for symbolic
>links and executables would result in only 1 ReadFile() call.  This seems
>like a nice general optimization which wouldn't be so "gross"...

Actually, I wonder if just mounting the directory with the execute bit
set ("mount -x c:\bin /bin") would solve this.  It would cause every
file to be considered executable but it may bypass the ReadFile.

cgf

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