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Re: Optimizing away "ReadFile" calls when Make calls stat()
At 02:56 PM 2/13/2001, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 14:54:01 -0500
> > From: DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>
> >
> > 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
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