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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:09:16 -0400
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
To: Egor Duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>
Cc: cygwin-developers <cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: stat_worker patch and suggestion
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In-Reply-To: <9484.990812@logos-m.ru>; from Egor Duda on Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 11:37:18AM +0400

On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 11:37:18AM +0400, Egor Duda wrote:
>  Attached patch make stat functions recognize UNC paths as remote. It
>speeds up fstat operations on remote drives, which are not mapped to
>drive letters.

Does this patch still operate correctly with the old "\\a" style method
for handling drives?

>BTW, what do you think of providing porters with some sort of "lite"
>versions of stat functions? Retrieving all stat information isn't
>always necessary, and opening file to get it's st_ino and scanning
>directory to get st_nlinks are quite time-consuming operations.

I don't know how this could be used.  Would you define stat as
"stat_lite" when you compile an application?

cgf