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Re: Stat() call speed-up
- To: sos at prospect dot com dot ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
- Subject: Re: Stat() call speed-up
- From: dumser at ti dot com (James Dumser)
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 15:01:56 -0600 (CST)
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
On Sat, 29 Mar 1997 14:52:44 +0300, you wrote:
>Yes, my game with archive bit wasn't good. For a now a have a new patch
>(with the same idea), but it uses Extended Attributes of files to save
>"executable" and "symlink" flags. This patch works on NT only (both ntfs
>and fat), and does nothing on Windows 95. If anybody are interesting in
>this patch, I'll post it here.
>
>BTW, EA can be used in cygwin.dll for some other purposes. To save case
>sensitive names, for example :-)
I'm interested. Did you modify the "creation" side of things (e.g., the
system calls behind chmod +x & ln -s) or are you still relying on a
script to set those bits?
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James Dumser 972-462-5335 dumser@ti.com
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