File operations speed-up

[Chris Schumann]

Isn't this useless for those who use backup software that
uses the archive bit to indicate whether a file has been
archived?

ChrisS




	Sergey Okhapkin <sos @ prospect.com.ru> 
	03/17/97 08:03 PM
To: 'Gnu-Win32' <gnu-win32 @ cygnus.com> @ SMTP
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Subject: File operations speed-up

Hi!

This patch increases the speed of stat/lstat calls dramatically. The trick 
is simple. Cygwin's stat call implementation reads the beginning of stated 
file to look for a "magic cookie" to define "executable" and "symlink" 
attributes of a file. With this patch reading is performed only if file 
have "archive" bit cleared. All ordinary files (not executables/symlinks) 
have this bit set. After applying this patch You have to "chmod +x file" on 
all executables/symlinks. I made a "chmod +x *" on directories with 
binaries. Later I'll write a special utility "fssync" to examine all files 
in a given directory tree and to set archive bit according to file magic 
cookie. Compare the time of "du ." on cygwin's root without and with this 
patch :-)

 

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Sergey Okhapkin
Moscow, Russia
Looking for a job.


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