Re: NOACL leads to a massive speed slowdown in file system processes

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>]

Greetings, tiwasey@arcor.de!

I would really appreciate, if you teach your mail agent to insert proper
threading headers.
Thank you in advance.

>> This is not the default exactly because of its nature.
>> It is unusable. You will not be able to run scripts from such mount point.

> No problem for me, I have my scripts in my cygwin home/bin. Why put them
> outside? That's their environment.

Because my $HOME on noacl mount. In fact it is matching my %USERPROFILE%.

>> However, I don't quite understand the nature of the issue here. Why not assume
>> all files "executable", and only check the magic word, when we actually trying
>> to execute them?

> True.
> Or all normal files like exe, com, bat, sh as executable, and the other
> ones manually with chmod. That information could be saved in a sqlite DB. Just an idea ;)

I would say, "just trust ACLs".
The cases of filesystem not supporting any ACL whatsoever being used with
Cygwin are very rare nowadays.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Monday, September 14, 2015 21:40:03

Sorry for my terrible english...


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