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Re: slow share = slow scripts?


On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:37:52AM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>>>From: mwoehlke
>>[snip]
>>> Also, why *is* 
>>>fstat() so inefficient?
>>
>>Short answer:  because it gets a bunch of information about the file that
>>isn't necessarily available without hitting (open()ing) the file itself.
>
>Like... what? Inode information? Looking at the man page for 'stat' (on 
>Linux, anyway; apparently I don't have the libc man pages installed on 
>Cygwin), I don't see anything that I would expect to need to *open* the 
>file to retrieve.
>
>Way way back in the OP, I mentioned that Interix doesn't have this 
>problem, which would imply a "design flaw" in Cygwin. Maybe (probably) 
>it is a *necessary* design flaw, BUT...

A "necessary" design flaw?  Interesting concept.

>Please note that I'm not asking anyone to do this... given the response 
>I got last time, I don't have any illusions that this will happen short 
>of my doing it myself (at which point I will be derided, and my work 
>will never leave my office). However, I would appreciate any existing 
>knowledge, or even pointers to where to start poking around, that anyone 
>would care to share.

I think that most of the pointers and insight about what Cygwin does with
fstat are all nicely encapsulated in the source code, specifically
fhandler_disk_file.cc and fhandler.cc .

cgf

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