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Re: stat_worker patch and suggestion
- To: Egor Duda <deo@logos-m.ru>
- Subject: Re: stat_worker patch and suggestion
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:09:16 -0400
- Cc: cygwin-developers <cygwin-developers@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- References: <9484.990812@logos-m.ru>
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