Greetings, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]! > Just to complete this topic ...
> This gets rid of all the fork-execs in the inner loop except > for sleep. Instead of comparing file contents, it uses > the test builtin to compare time stamps. I /never ever/ rely on timestamps, except for casual check of the file age. If I want to know, if two files are equal, I always compare contents. Always. Even on 4Gb+ files. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 11.06.2012, <17:57> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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