> The best thing to do is to skip any flags for 'ls'. If > cygwin has to open > the file to fill in a particular piece of data, you're going > to see significant > delays on a slow file-system/driver.
So the difference is, that "ls -l" openes all files, reading in all bytes to count them; while Windows "dir" gets the file size from the directory? Paul. -- 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
