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Re: ls -p very slow




On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Derek Young wrote:

> NTFS supports extended file attributes (user defined) doesn't it?  Could an
> extended attribute be used to hold the destination of the link instead of
> storing it within the file?  The file would always be empty.  This way all the
> link information is stored within the directory and following links would be
> much faster.  Of course FAT doesn't support extended attributes, so links
> would still have to live within the file in this case.

Along those lines, MSDN has some information on creating shortcuts.  If I
ever get winsup to compile instead of gpfing, and randomly blechin out
errors, I'd like to give this a try.

- alex

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