From: garbanzo@hooked.net (Alex) Subject: Re: ls -p very slow 4 Nov 1997 22:36:26 -0800 Message-ID: References: <345F6589.337B0859@biddersedge.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Derek Young Cc: cloder@acm.org, gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Derek Young wrote: > NTFS supports extended file attributes (user defined) doesn't it? Could an > extended attribute be used to hold the destination of the link instead of > storing it within the file? The file would always be empty. This way all the > link information is stored within the directory and following links would be > much faster. Of course FAT doesn't support extended attributes, so links > would still have to live within the file in this case. Along those lines, MSDN has some information on creating shortcuts. If I ever get winsup to compile instead of gpfing, and randomly blechin out errors, I'd like to give this a try. - alex - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".