ls taking too long
Chris January
chris@atomice.net
Wed Dec 8 14:15:00 GMT 2004
> If a directory contains a large number of files (I have
> >40000) where most of them are named such that the first
> character is a "1" and you do an "ls x*" where only one of
> the files begin with x, the ls takes an inordinate amount of
> time, but going to a plain dos window and "dir e*" is really fast.
The cmd/dos window's filename filtering is done in the kernel, whereas
Cygwin's is done in user mode so every file is processed.
Chris
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