On 4 June 2010 19:50, Eliot Moss wrote: > I don't think there's an objection here to > patching *rsync* specially in the cygwin > environment -- that would be between you > and the rsync port maintainer. The issue > is whether or not to make a more general > change to cygwin itself, and cgf is just > saying that that's hard to do. > > Conceivably we could come up with some > additional functions that cygwin ports > could use if they want to, but "out of > box" use of stat needs to replicate > full behavior since there's no way to > know what a given call of stat really > needs ...
MKS has such a faster but limited version of stat: http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man3/_NutFastStat.3.asp Shame about the name. Andy -- 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
