Re: Followup on eliminating symlink ReadFile calls -- it's not necessary

["Robert Melchers" <robert dot melchers at drives dot eurotherm dot co dot uk>]

Robert Melchers wrote:
>
> This may or may not be relevant, We have recently upgraded our Virus
scanner to McAfee Virus Scan 4.5 from 4.x. our build of > 200 files has now
slowed by
> a factor of 5-10x. The only answer is to exit the scanner, The effect can
be seen using Task Manager, with the scanner active Make (and its sub
processes)
> get about 40% of the processor, and the Idle process the rest, exit this
scanner and Make get 100%. The source directory and Tools directories are
both
> excluded from the scanner.
> This is a known FAQed issue. Earnie.

I knew about the FAQ but I never noticed the slow down until the latest
scanner was installed. My guess is that their old problem is back again.

Robert.


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