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RE: slow share = slow scripts?
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 21:39:35 -0500
- Subject: RE: slow share = slow scripts?
> 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.
> Can anything be done about it?
Short answer: No.
Longer answer: Much has, but the real problem is the very definition of the
function.
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Gary R. Van Sickle
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