Greetings, Martin Wege!
> The root cause is IMO the extra Win32 syscalls (>= 3 per file lookup,
> compared to 1 on Linux) to lookup the *.lnk and *.exe.lnk files on
> filesystems which have native link support (NTFS, ReFS, SMBFS, NFS).
Except you require elevation to actually create symlinks.
Or some special system configuration.
> On SMBFS and NFS it hurts the most, because access latency is the
> highest for networked filesystems.
> So my proposal would be to add an option ('fslinktypes') to the CYGWIN
> environment variable to define which types of links are supported:
> default 'all'. which is an shortcut for 'native,lnk,lnkexe'.
> So in case people do not want 'lnk' link support they just add
> CYGWIN+=' fslinktypes:native' to env, to turn off support for
> lnk/lnk.exe style links, and be happy.
> @Corinna Vinschen Would that be acceptable?
Make a patch to begin discussion.
Also, not all mangling is meaningful to disable. F.e. disabling .exe magic on
Windows would be surprising to the end user.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, December 22, 2023 21:50:58
Sorry for my terrible english...
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