cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 11:11:07PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jul 27 13:48, aldana wrote:
>>isn't there a possibitly that cygwin provides a quicker
>>cp-implementation?  i mean 4 minutes for a copy of 70MB to a memstick
>>(instead of CopyFile() 20 sec.) is not really good performance.  i
>>guess there is a reason for that...
>
>Right, how did you know?  The reason is that cp is a portable
>implementation using simple reads and writes to perform the copy.
>There's no such thing as a CopyFile routine on POSIX systems.

A few weeks ago there was a guy in libc-alpha mailing list complaining
that glibc's API wasn't as rich and powerful as what is found on Windows.

As far as I know he's still alive.

cgf

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