On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM Andrey Repin <anrdae...@yandex.ru> wrote: > > Greetings, Aurélien Couderc! > > >> >> Stat and ACL info require additional calls. > >> > >> > Right, but my proposal is to do parallel/async lookups. The Windows NT > >> > kernel depends heavily on multithreading and parallelism, of which > >> > Cygwin uses nothing right now for dir lookups. > >> > >> Not an option unless it can be cheaply done under winsup/cygwin/fhandler. > >> Most utilities are GNU/BSD/Linux ports, so custom mods would have to be > >> submitted and accepted upstream, as we often already have enough patches to > >> maintain, to get them to build and work cleanly under Cygwin. > > > I think you misunderstand me. I am suggesting to improve the Cygwin > > implementation of opendir(), readdir() and friends to do Win32/WInNT > > calls async to speed up dir listings. > > If you know how it can be done, why not provide a patch?
Because I am not YET qualified? This is god level Cygwin hacking level, like Corinna Vinschen can do. I'm just a student, doing some ReactOS/Windows hacking. Aurélien -- Aurélien Couderc <aurelien.couderc2...@gmail.com> Big Data/Data mining expert, chess enthusiast -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
