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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 19:58:29 +0100
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Subject: Re: Cygwin Performance and stat()
From: Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com>
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On 4 June 2010 19:50, Eliot Moss wrote:
> I don't think there's an objection here to
> patching *rsync* specially in the cygwin
> environment -- that would be between you
> and the rsync port maintainer. The issue
> is whether or not to make a more general
> change to cygwin itself, and cgf is just
> saying that that's hard to do.
>
> Conceivably we could come up with some
> additional functions that cygwin ports
> could use if they want to, but "out of
> box" use of stat needs to replicate
> full behavior since there's no way to
> know what a given call of stat really
> needs ...

MKS has such a faster but limited version of stat:

http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man3/_NutFastStat.3.asp

Shame about the name.

Andy

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