Hello Jack, Jack Lloyd wrote: > I could not say for certain, but from looking at the code implementing > the status command it appears to respect the masks provided on the > command line. Tracking the open syscalls using strace > (http://linux.die.net/man/1/strace) also seemed to confirm this, mtn > didn't open or stat any files outside of the paths specified. > > One odd thing I noticed is that mtn will stat each file twice, > right in a row.
Yeah, this is known and has been discussed before. Unfortunately I don't remember the reason for calling stat() twice. Caching of the stat() result has been considered, but argued against, because stat() should be fast and simple enough. Regards Markus Wanner _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
