On Jan 11 13:14, Marco atzeri wrote: > Hi All, > I have found non specific info on the faq and > documentation, so I am wondering if there is > any specific "debugging" reason to explain why > latest snapshots 20070110 (and 04) are substantial > slower than 1.5.23-2 on removing multiple files.
FAQ and docs don't refer to snapshots, rather to the release. Current CVS contains a change which is probably the cause for that. Before deleting a file, the file is moved to the recycle bin. The idea is to allow POSIX semantics. A file which is in use by another application can be deleted. However, as long as the file is in use, it's visible in directory listings. There are POSIX applications which treat the existence of the file as a failure in removing the file. One step further, there are applications which expect to be able to remove the parent directory, which is also not possible as long as this file is still in use. To overcome this problem the file is moved to the recycle bin in unlink(2), so that it disappears from it's original directory, regardless whether it's still in use or not. I tried to do this as quick as possible but there's obviously some room for optimization. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/