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Re: ls -p very slow
- To: Derek Young <derek at biddersedge dot com>
- Subject: Re: ls -p very slow
- From: Alex <garbanzo at hooked dot net>
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 19:07:59 -0800 (PST)
- cc: cloder at acm dot org, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Derek Young wrote:
> NTFS supports extended file attributes (user defined) doesn't it? Could an
> extended attribute be used to hold the destination of the link instead of
> storing it within the file? The file would always be empty. This way all the
> link information is stored within the directory and following links would be
> much faster. Of course FAT doesn't support extended attributes, so links
> would still have to live within the file in this case.
Along those lines, MSDN has some information on creating shortcuts. If I
ever get winsup to compile instead of gpfing, and randomly blechin out
errors, I'd like to give this a try.
- alex
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