> I've installed GNU ghostview V 1.5 in our AFS cell. When
> opening a file, ghostview opens a dialog box which offers
> a kind of history mechanism, showing the content of
> the last two directories. Ghostview seems to read in
> *all* information about the files. This leads to the
> following problem:
>
> If the path shown in Ghostview includes /afs/...,
> Ghostview tries to obtain information for all mounted
> cells ... This results in an enormous slow down; work
> is no longer possible. Once one have reached a directory
> which is deep enough to not include /afs/... performance
> is ok.
>
> Does anyone have already solved this? I would appreciate
> any help. (One idea is to make a directory, say /afs/cells
> which includes all cell mount points.)
I just got around to solving this problem. The solution is to
modify the file selector to assume all of the entries in the
/afs directory are directories and avoid doing a stat on them.
Here is the long awaited patch:
*** 1.4 1993/07/24 02:29:12
--- Draw.c 1995/05/02 22:14:33
***************
*** 272,278 ****
last = strlen(entry->real) - 1;
entry->real[last] = 0;
entry->statDone = 1;
! if (
(!stat(entry->real, &statBuf))
#ifdef S_IFLNK
--- 272,280 ----
last = strlen(entry->real) - 1;
entry->real[last] = 0;
entry->statDone = 1;
! if (strcmp(SFcurrentPath, "/afs/") == 0) {
! entry->real[last] = '/';
! } else if (
(!stat(entry->real, &statBuf))
#ifdef S_IFLNK
*** 1.6 1993/07/24 02:29:12
--- Path.c 1995/05/02 22:15:08
***************
*** 806,813 ****
--- 806,823 ----
char *str;
int last;
struct stat statBuf;
+ char save;
result = 0;
+
+ save = *(dir->path);
+ *(dir->path) = 0;
+
+ if (strcmp(SFcurrentPath, "/afs/") == 0) {
+ *(dir->path) = save;
+ return result;
+ }
+ *(dir->path) = save;
from = dir->vOrigin;
to = dir->vOrigin + SFlistSize;
...Tim
Tim Theisen Associate Researcher
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