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Re: Updated: 1.7.0-34 (...and a plea)
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:10:14 +0100
- Subject: Re: Updated: 1.7.0-34 (...and a plea)
- References: <20081126124259.GA30831@calimero.vinschen.de> <20081205110733.GQ12905@calimero.vinschen.de> <493933A4.8090902@byu.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Dec 5 06:59, Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Corinna Vinschen on 12/5/2008 4:07 AM:
> > As it is now, find and ls built with d_type support will be already much
> > faster scanning directories recursively.
>
> I'm already in the process of rebuilding findutils and coreutils to pick
> this up. Unfortunately, readline/bash tab-completion don't currently use
> d_type, so it doesn't reap the benefits without more effort on my part.
You're one of the maintainers who very quickly offered 1.7 packages,
so you're off the hook anyway :)
Btw., thanks for doing this! Stuff like bash, coreutils and findutils
are really crucial parts of the distro and if they support the latest
features, that's worth a lot.
Corinna
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