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 Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20010213152509.0498d318@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:25:52 -0500 To: Jonathan Kamens , dj@delorie.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Optimizing away "ReadFile" calls when Make calls stat() Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <20010213195637.17813.qmail@lizard.curl.com> References: <200102131954.OAA09284@envy.delorie.com> <4.3.1.2.20010213134821.019a7130@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <20010213190131.14369.qmail@lizard.curl.com> <200102131935.OAA09136@envy.delorie.com> <20010213194612.17311.qmail@lizard.curl.com> <200102131954.OAA09284@envy.delorie.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 02:56 PM 2/13/2001, Jonathan Kamens wrote: > > Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 14:54:01 -0500 > > From: DJ Delorie > > > > Perhaps you could > > propose a set of mount flags to optimize common situations? We > > already have one to avoid the read-for-execute test, > >Could you elaborate on that? > > > perhaps you could > > work on an assume-no-symlinks flag? Then we wouldn't need a custom > > make.exe (or any other program). > >I think that's a very good idea. If you tell me a little bit more >about the read-for-execute mount flag, with which I'm not familiar, I >can look into implementing a similar thing for symbolic links. Take a look at mount --help. You can then look at the mount code to see how this works. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple