From: Alex Riesen Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:32:06 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] add GIT_FAST_STAT mode for Cygwin Message-ID: <81b0412b0809240832g52a2f83cx69125895cc7f88b2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080924151653.GQ3669@spearce.org> 2008/9/24 Shawn O. Pearce : > Alex Riesen wrote: >> 2008/9/24 Shawn O. Pearce : >> > >> > However Dmitry pointed out that he has cases where this faster >> > function doesn't work correctly, and it was path specific. Some >> > areas of the filesystem work, others don't, on the same system. >> >> Huh?! What are they? What paths require cygwin's handling >> which aren't handled already? (the absolute paths are handled). > > Cygwin lets you mount a filesystem at a different part of the > filesystem. Ewwww... Yes, you're right. Disgusting feature. Just when I thought Cygwin cannot get any worse... Config parameter looks like the only way to workaround that. > Sort of like Linux's mount -t bind (IIRC). Except that in Linux the binding is part of the filesystem namespace, not a special knowledge of some stupid library.