Re: Optimizing away "ReadFile" calls when Make calls stat()

[Jonathan Kamens]

>  Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 14:54:01 -0500
>  From: DJ Delorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>  
>  Perhaps you could
>  propose a set of mount flags to optimize common situations?  We
>  already have one to avoid the read-for-execute test,

Could you elaborate on that?

>  perhaps you could
>  work on an assume-no-symlinks flag?  Then we wouldn't need a custom
>  make.exe (or any other program).

I think that's a very good idea.  If you tell me a little bit more
about the read-for-execute mount flag, with which I'm not familiar, I
can look into implementing a similar thing for symbolic links.

Thanks,

  jik

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