X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "John W. Eaton" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17393.64159.730688.489277@segfault.lan> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:43:27 -0500 To: Eric Blake Cc: Larrie Carr , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [octave ] LOADPATH recurses only one level of subdirectories (on network drives) In-Reply-To: <43F1E6C1.4010104@byu.net> References: <017b01c62daf$7696d140$0201a8c0@homelarrie> <17387.42303.91508.260685@segfault.lan> <01a501c62dba$18fc1b20$0201a8c0@homelarrie> <029001c62ebf$032b7a10$0201a8c0@homelarrie> <03ed01c62f9d$1aff55b0$0201a8c0@homelarrie> <43F1E6C1.4010104@byu.net> X-CAE-MailScanner-Information: Please contact security@engr.wisc.edu if this message contains a virus or has been corrupted in delivery. X-CAE-MailScanner: Found to be clean (benji) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 14-Feb-2006, Eric Blake wrote: | so it is a | bug in octave if it is mis-optimizing traversal in the presence of a | directory link count of 1. It might make sense, though, for cygwin to set | the link count to 0 on remote directories (rather than 1), to make it | obvious that the link count really is unknown, but this still does not | take the blame off of octave for the mis-optimization. If we are playing the blame game, then let's assign some of the blame to the kpathsearch library, which is the basis for Octave's path searching code. jwe -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/