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Re: performance problems
On Jun 2 18:32, Brian Dessent wrote:
> In order to implement stat(), cygwin has to call NtQueryInformationFile
> (GetFileInformationByHandle for 9x/me) and this requires the file to be
> opened. Thus the reason that stat takes forever is that each file has
There would be a theoretical way around this. NtQueryDirectoryFile allows
to get all information about a file (with a prominent exception) without
having to open the file. Instead you just need the handle to the parent
directory. We don't have the infrastructure in Cygwin right now to use
this method easily, but it could speed up stat when, for instance, the file
is in the current working directory or if the process has called opendir on
the parent directory of the file. I'm not sure, but it could perhaps even
get rid of the annoying messages
ls: hiberfil.sys: No such file or directory
ls: pagefile.sys: No such file or directory
when calling `ls -l' in /cygdrive/c.
Uh, yes, the prominent exception... unfortunately, there's no way to use
NtQueryDirectoryFile on NT4 and W2K to retrieve the file id (inode number).
This has been introduced with XP and 2K3 first. Too bad.
Corinna
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