On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 05:50:13PM -0400, Don Bowman wrote: > >The attached patch adds a new CYGWIN environment variable, statquery. This >causes stat() to use set_query_open(TRUE) all the time, which >dramatically improves the performance on e.g. ls -lR operations or >configure. >For example, an ls -lR of the 'ntop' distribution goes from 34seconds >to 2seconds on my computer on a local filesystem. The actual change >is extremely trivial.
You should get the same effect by mounting directories or files with either the -E or -X option. And, the control is more pinpoint than an environment variable. cgf
