On Dec 5 06:59, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Corinna Vinschen on 12/5/2008 4:07 AM: > > As it is now, find and ls built with d_type support will be already much > > faster scanning directories recursively. > > I'm already in the process of rebuilding findutils and coreutils to pick > this up. Unfortunately, readline/bash tab-completion don't currently use > d_type, so it doesn't reap the benefits without more effort on my part.
You're one of the maintainers who very quickly offered 1.7 packages, so you're off the hook anyway :) Btw., thanks for doing this! Stuff like bash, coreutils and findutils are really crucial parts of the distro and if they support the latest features, that's worth a lot. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
