Cygwin Filesystem Performance degradation 1.7.5 vs 1.7.7, and methods for improving performance

[Larry Hall (Cygwin Developers)]

On 9/29/2010 3:25 PM, Derry Shribman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Q) how much code needs to be modified to get this to work?
> A) just add
> #ifdef __CYGWIN__
> setenv("CYGWIN", "no_ino no_nlink");
> #endif
> In the code. ONCE!

If it's known that the application doesn't ever use the "heavy" parts of
stat() in any of its code, then substituting xstat() for stat() globally
only needs to happen once in the code as well.

So it sounds to me like if xstat existed right now in Cygwin, you'd be just
as content with it for application use as some Cygwin-specific environment
variable.  Or was there another point for application use that I missed?

-- 
Larry