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According to Ben Wing on 10/21/2006 5:37 PM:I am using zsh on the latest cygwin and the first time I load it up and^^^
try to do tab completion on e.g. /mnt/g/download/<TAB>, it spends an
inordinate amount of time grinding the disk -- sometimes on the order of
2 minutes or more. granted, the subdirs have a lot in them; evidently it's grinding its way through all of the subdirs. but why? the directory contains only 8 subdirs:
drwxrwxrwx+ 160 Ben None 0 Oct 16 11:03 utorrent/
This might be why - to correctly fill out the n_link member of struct stat
---for a directory on a local drive, cygwin counts how many subdirectories live in that directory. Depending on how your disk is filled, it may take some time to effectively readdir the directory to get that count. Extra-full directories take longer to traverse
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