From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: New winsup snapshot 9/14/98
18 Sep 1998 23:53:45 -0700
Message-ID: <01BDE3B9.F9620F10.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@sos>
To: "cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>,
        "'Christopher Faylor'" <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> /__cygwin__/usr/bin would be hidden and would mirror /usr/bin except
> that the files associated with filenames would contain only with
> permission and device information.

(V)FAT filesystem on linux uses index files in each directory and is fast 
enough. Why not borrow well tested algorythms and to implement the same 
with the same index structure for compatibility?

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia