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Chris Faylor wrote: > [...] > I think that the big slowdown happens in counting the files in > a directory to update the "nlinks" field in stat (or whatever > it's called). Oh, I missed that. Good point. I would offer to care for that because it could be done in one step together with my change to get_file_attribute(). > Maybe we should just detect when a file or directory is remote > and not do some of the more expensive operations. This is already detected in fstat. We could try to use this knowledge. I would implement a static solution first. After that, we could care for the following: > I would like the ability to be able to set attributes on an executable > something like: > > chattr --stat-lite ls.exe I would plead for a path controlled solution: cygset stat-lite [never|local|remote|always] or, another way, cygset stat-lite a: e: \\ to set stat-lite on all full paths beginning with a:, e: or \\. > chattr --fix-all-existing-bugs cygwin1.dll Let's get serious: Nobody would need us anymore ;-) Corinna
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