X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 17:03:21 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin Performance and stat() Message-ID: <20100530210321.GB11159@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20100530170747 DOT GA8605 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:51:31PM -0700, Christopher Wingert wrote: >I assume POSIX compatibility. However, I bet there are cases where one >can sacrifice compatibility for performance (configurable with an >environment flag of course). > >See > >http://marc.info/?l=git&m=122278284210941 > >for an example. Yes, I got what you meant. I think that bypassing Cygwin, assuming you can do something good enough is a remarkably bad idea. But, anyway, if there was something in Cygwin, it would be documented. Otherwise, I doubt that anyone outside of the cygwin developers understands the stat() code well enough to come up with a patch. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple