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From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
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Subject: Re: lfn from scratch...
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 16:43:02 +0100
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> The point is that "ls nonexistent-file" returns immediately, as does
> "ls x:" for a non-existent drive x:, while the above waits for a long 
> time before it returns to the caller.

Yes, but it's no different for Win32 apps; "dir \\foo\bar" also takes
a long time to return, and having UNCs in PATH can _really_ slow the
command prompt down.  It's a fact of live with UNCs; I don't why we
should try to do better than the OS in that respect.