Mark Levedahl <mleved...@gmail.com> writes: >> In order to limit the adverse effects caused by this implementation, >> we provide a new "fast stat" interface, which allows us to use this >> only for interactions with the index (i.e. the cached stat data). >> >> Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ram...@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> >> --- > > I've tested this on Cygwin 1.7 on WIndows 7 , comparing to the results > using your prior patch (removing the Cygwin specific lstat entirely) > and get the same results with both, so this seems ok from me. > > My comparison point was created by reverting your current patch from > pu, then reapplying your earlier patch on top, so the only difference > was which approach was used to address the stat functions. > > Caveats: > 1) I don't find any speed improvement of the current patch over the > previous one (the tests actually ran faster with the earlier patch, > though the difference was less than 1%). > 2) I still question this whole approach, especially having this > non-POSIX compliant mode be the default. Running in this mode breaks > interoperability with Linux, but providing a Linux environment is the > *primary* goal of Cygwin.
Sounds like we are better off without this patch, and instead remove the "schizophrenic stat"? I do not have a strong opinion either way, except that I tend to agree with your point 2) above. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
