Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 08:54:36 +0200 From: Jens Yllman Subject: Re: What does ls do? To: GNUWin32 Message-id: <397D39AC.3CC1571B@uniweb.se> Organization: Uniweb AB MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT X-Accept-Language: en References: <20000724170816.10981.qmail@web112.yahoomail.com> Ok, thank you. I thougt this was the reason. I try to turn of the 'scan on open' option. But keep the 'scan on write'. And hope it will work better. Jens Yllman Earnie Boyd wrote: > > --- Jens Yllman wrote: > > What do ls realy do? The reason I wonder is because I just noticed that > > my virus program gets triggered for every file that is in the directory > > that where I use ls. And all the file with the right(wrong) extension > > get search by the virusprogram. And this makes ls very slow. > > > > The best answer to your question about ls is "Use the source, Luke". Your > virus program must be triggered by a file being opened or even stat'ed. If > this is the case then all programs not just Cygwin ones will be affected. The > only cure that I've found is to disable the dynamic virus protection and > periodically check your files for viruses. > > Cheers, > > ===== > --- > Earnie Boyd: > __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ > Cygwin Newbies: > __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ > Mingw32 List: > Mingw Home: > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Uniweb AB Phone: +46 8 626 42 00 P O Box 745 FAX: +46 8 626 42 01 S-191 27 SOLLENTUNA SWEDEN http://www.uniweb.se/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com