Christopher Wingert wrote:
Hi Eric,
Thanks for the reply.
The triple stat() issue I am talking about is a thread/patch that I read
from the 2002 timeframe. I don't think the patch got integrated back tho.
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2002-05/msg01600.html
There was another thread that I can't find right now.
Actually Linux readdir doesn't provide any clues about the file either, it
returns the dirent structure.
However, this really opens my eyes as to the problem :
operations, the result of which is just discarded). With directories in
particular, part of the slowdown is that stat()'s st_nlink field is
populated by counting how many files appear in that sub-directory, even
though readline didn't care about that.
I had the same issue with a tab in /cygdrive/c/ (obviously due to the
nasty-ness of the Windows directory). My directory of 300 subdirectories
has umpteen files in the subdirectories.
What about turning this subdirectory parsing off by feeding a -1 in
st_nlink in Cygwin? How could I propose such a change for cygwin?
The best way is to create a patch and then send it to the cygwin-patches
list. From there, any debate can and will proceed.
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