Re: ls -p very slow

["Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd at hotmail dot com>]

>Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 22:16:00 -0800 (PST)
>From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
>To: cloder@acm.org
>cc: Derek Young <derek@biddersedge.com>, gnu-win32@cygnus.com
>Subject: Re: ls -p very slow
>
>
>
>On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Chad Loder wrote:
>
>> Hmmm...I always thought shortcuts were those bloody *.LNK files which 
are
>> only valid from the GUI (they're just files, maybe with .INI 
syntax?). If so,
>> then I can't see how that would help. It's odd that MS didn't do 
symbolic
>> linking with NTFS. At least they have tab filename completion on NT's 
DOS box
>> though...
>
>Shortcuts are those bloody .lnk files, but not just available to the 
GUI
>proggies, but to all Win32 programs, afaik they don't have INI style
>syntax.  They do however have various API functions that would probably
>provide a [small] speedup.  I'm thinking that the stat functions (or
>whatever ls is using) would only check .lnk files for shortcuts, and if 
it
>_is_ a shortcut, then the .lnk is truncated within gnu-win32, and if 
it's
>not a shortcut then, it's treated as a regular file (with the .lnk
>extension).
>

Don't forget about the .pif files which are shortcuts to executables.

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