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RE: ls taking too long
- From: "Chris January" <chris at atomice dot net>
- To: <kenneth dot shaffer at sciatl dot com>
- Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:15:31 -0000
- Subject: RE: ls taking too long
> If a directory contains a large number of files (I have
> >40000) where most of them are named such that the first
> character is a "1" and you do an "ls x*" where only one of
> the files begin with x, the ls takes an inordinate amount of
> time, but going to a plain dos window and "dir e*" is really fast.
The cmd/dos window's filename filtering is done in the kernel, whereas
Cygwin's is done in user mode so every file is processed.
Chris
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