From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: File operations speed-up 18 Mar 1997 13:39:23 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC3398.FFC271B0.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> Original-To: "'Gnu-Win32'" , "'Rick Rankin'" Encoding: 19 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Rick Rankin wrote: > What are you going to do about backup utilities that clear this bit when a > file has been backed up? I assume that there are still backup utilities out > there that use the archive bit for determining when a file needs to be > backed up. If archive bit is cleared, the speed-up code will not work, current cygwin's slow code will do all the work. But You are right - if backup utulity don't back up files with this bit cleared, all executables and symlinks will not be backed up. It's up to You - to use or not to use this patch :-) -- Sergey Okhapkin Moscow, Russia Looking for a job. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".