X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin Performance and stat() References: <20100605052429 DOT GA4801 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20100605190055 DOT GB13928 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <04283c099c3e756b9b4ae85306882b11 DOT squirrel AT www DOT webmail DOT wingert DOT org> Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:12:36 +0200 Cc: "Christopher Wingert" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: "Matthias Andree" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <04283c099c3e756b9b4ae85306882b11.squirrel@www.webmail.wingert.org> User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.53 (Linux) X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Am 06.06.2010, 01:16 Uhr, schrieb Christopher Wingert: >> I do think out loud with my "team". You are not on it. > > Agreed! You would rather spend your time ridiculing any possible > solution. If only there had been a solution, rather than a loose collection of names (I wouldn't even dare call that ideas) dropped where the Cygwin maintainers - likely based on prior experience - couldn't see how it could have provided all mandatory fields for a POSIX compliant (and no less!) f?stat(). > This is what lead to my initial reluctance to do any patch for Cygwin > software. A nice way to express that your patch would not stand scrutiny against POSIX anyways. But seriously, Christopher Faylor has been trying to get to a technical discussion, where you avoided his arguments and produced new names of way to solve things again, so let me say this: If you think your post makes you a member of some core team, then you're expecting too much. And this isn't specific to Cygwin. You need to build trust, and that is not achieved by bitching at people and their products, but by answering technical concerns. Meaning that: even if I'm only a Cygwin user, and I'm sometimes disappointed by how slow it is, too, I'm sort of convinced there isn't a cheaper way to get all the required information. And I for one can configure my virus scanner to scan on write or execution, rather than on every read. I can also configure which types of files it's going to scan. For starters, you might try that... -- Matthias Andree -- 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