From: lhall@rfk.com (Larry Hall) Subject: Re: ls so slow 11 Dec 1998 19:46:08 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981211181345.009db890.cygnus.gnu-win32@pop.ma.ultranet.com> References: <852566D7.00551E9B.00@nors01nms.moneynet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Richard Faber" , gnu-win32@cygnus.com At 10:34 AM 12/11/98 -0500, Richard Faber wrote: > > "B20: ls so slow in large directories (NT 4.0)" > >I go to the bin directory of the Cygnus user installation... >do ls ... it is pretty fast. >Then I do ls -CF.... it is so slow. > >Other ls's I use can do ls -CF quite fast.... > >cd /d/cygnus/cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/bin$ time ls -CF >real 0m6.309s >user 0m0.070s >sys 0m6.169s > > >Any info appreciated.... > If you knew what you were asking it to do by specifying the "-F" flag and what it has to do to comply with that request, you wouldn't think it was so slow!;-) In essence, any executable/symlink has to be stat'd, which in Win32 world means each one is opened first. What "other" ls's has you used? Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (781) 239-1053 8 Grove Street (781) 239-1655 - FAX Wellesley, MA 02482-7797 http://www.rfk.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".