RE: stat(2) triggers on-demand virus scan

2006-01-14 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: Brett Serkez > Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 3:19 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: stat(2) triggers on-demand virus scan > > > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 03:35:17PM -0500, Brett Serkez wrote: > > >I'm still researching, I was going to respond this is posting at

RE: stat(2) triggers on-demand virus scan

2006-01-14 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: Paul McFerrin > Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 5:19 PM > To: Cygwin@Cygwin.com > Subject: Re: stat(2) triggers on-demand virus scan > > Boy did I open a can of worms! > No, it's like this on a regular, periodic basis. > When I looked at the source of Cygwin1.dll a few years ago at >

RE: stat(2) triggers on-demand virus scan

2006-01-14 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] > >>I just wanted to make it clear that we aren't going to be > making any > >>special concessions to a product like a virus scanner which cause > >>perfectly acceptable code to misbehave. If that is the > case then it > >>is a situation for the virus scanner to work out. It's not a

Re: Stat(2) trigger on-demand virus scan

2006-01-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 09:12:11PM -0500, Paul McFerrin wrote: >Brett Serkez wrote: >>> From what I've been seeing, I'm starting to suspect that the problem(s) >>is there in both cases, the scanner simply makes it much more >>noticable. I do see more CPU consumption that I woud have expected >>eve

Re: Stat(2) trigger on-demand virus scan

2006-01-14 Thread Paul McFerrin
Brett Serkez wrote: [snip] > >> From what I've been seeing, I'm starting to suspect that the problem(s) > > is > there in both cases, the scanner simply makes it much more noticable. I > do see more CPU consumption that I woud have expected even without the > virus scanner and the original post

Re: once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing

2006-01-14 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:35:18PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:46:24PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >Just in case it's relevant, note that I have experimental bash, > >readline, libreadline6, findutils, and coreutils. > > Does the latest snapshot behave

Re: stat(2) triggers on-demand virus scan

2006-01-14 Thread Paul McFerrin
Boy did I open a can of worms! When I looked at the source of Cygwin1.dll a few years ago at the time, the stat(2) basically called a MS API function to retreive the information and then did a simpe return. I think it the faulty design of MS not to privide a function to get status information

Re: stat(2) triggers on-demand virus scan

2006-01-14 Thread Brett Serkez
[snip] > We are not going to visit the slippery slope of adding code to Cygwin > to work around other third party software. I'm hoping and assuming it is going to be more a matter of making minor changes, if it requires a major change, then it is more likely Microsoft or some other vendor is at f

Re: stat(2) triggers on-demand virus scan

2006-01-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 04:18:43PM -0500, Brett Serkez wrote: >>On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 03:35:17PM -0500, Brett Serkez wrote: >>>I'm still researching, I was going to respond this is posting at a >>>later time with more insight, but before things get out-of-hand, I >>>wanted to jump in. I suppose

Re: stat(2) triggers on-demand virus scan

2006-01-14 Thread Chris Taylor
Brett Serkez wrote: On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 03:35:17PM -0500, Brett Serkez wrote: I'm still researching, I was going to respond this is posting at a later time with more insight, but before things get out-of-hand, I wanted to jump in. I suppose I'm still hopeful that we can zero in on what pre

Re: stat(2) triggers on-demand virus scan

2006-01-14 Thread Brett Serkez
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 03:35:17PM -0500, Brett Serkez wrote: > >I'm still researching, I was going to respond this is posting at a > >later time with more insight, but before things get out-of-hand, I > >wanted to jump in. I suppose I'm still hopeful that we can zero in > >on what precisely is

Re: stat(2) triggers on-demand virus scan

2006-01-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 03:35:17PM -0500, Brett Serkez wrote: >I'm still researching, I was going to respond this is posting at a >later time with more insight, but before things get out-of-hand, I >wanted to jump in. I suppose I'm still hopeful that we can zero in >on what precisely is causing th

RE: stat(2) triggers on-demand virus scan

2006-01-14 Thread Brett Serkez
> > The stat(2) system call runs very slowly because it is constantlt > > triggering the McAfee on-demand virus scanner to scan the file that > > is being stat'ed. This may not seem like a big thing but I > > frequently stat thousands of files at a batch. I find that the stat > > runs much faster

RE: stat(2) triggers on-demand virus scan

2006-01-14 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
pmcferrin wrote: > The stat(2) system call runs very slowly because it is constantlt > triggering the McAfee on-demand virus scanner to scan the file that > is being stat'ed. This may not seem like a big thing but I frequently > stat thousands of files at a batch. I find that the stat runs much >

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