B18,B19 (NT 4.0): gnu tools are slow
Sergey Okhapkin
sos@prospect.com.ru
Thu May 7 03:43:00 GMT 1998
Jonathan Payne wrote:
> I have always noticed that the GNU tools are very slow when it comes to
> accessing the file system. Recently I ran:
>
> ls d:/
>
> and it took so long, and the disk was making so much noise, that I decided to
> run a program called NT File Mon which some of you may have heard of. The thing
> I noticed was that LS was apparently reading all the directories 1-level deep.
> And I happened to have a directory with 1000+ files in it at the top level, so
> that's why it took even longer than normal.
Cygwin scans every subdirectory to correctly fill-in st_nlinks field of stat structure.
--
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia.
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