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Re: Updated: 1.7.0-34 (...and a plea)


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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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat


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