Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Oct 16, 2007, 06:42 UTC
Message-ID: <47145D6D.80001@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <uodezisvg.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii schrieb:

> If that's the issue, then it's not a good idea to call `stat' and
> `readdir' on Windows at all.  `stat' is a single system call on Posix
> systems, while on Windows it usually needs to go out of its way
> calling half a dozen system services to gather the `struct stat' info.

Thanks to Marius Storm-Olsen we already have a stat replacement that's twice as fast as msvcrt's stat. I calls only one API function (GetFileAttributesEx, but of course I don't know what's going on under its hood), because we need only a small part of struct stat filled in correctly.

-- Hannes

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