AW: AW: How to make ls as quick as a Windows dir?

2011-02-09 Thread Paul Maier
Perhaps it's time for a full problem report. See the link below for specifics on what should be in such a report. http://cygwin.com/problems.html Larry, for the cygcheck log: please mail (only to) me your personal e-mail address. I can't mail the file to the list. Paul. -- Problem

Re: AW: AW: How to make ls as quick as a Windows dir?

2011-02-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/9/2011 6:31 AM, Paul Maier wrote: Perhaps it's time for a full problem report. See the link below for specifics on what should be in such a report. http://cygwin.com/problems.html Larry, for the cygcheck log: please mail (only to) me your personal e-mail address. I can't mail the

AW: How to make ls as quick as a Windows dir?

2011-02-08 Thread Paul Maier
The best thing to do is to skip any flags for 'ls'. If cygwin has to open the file to fill in a particular piece of data, you're going to see significant delays on a slow file-system/driver. So the difference is, that ls -l openes all files, reading in all bytes to count them; while

Re: AW: How to make ls as quick as a Windows dir?

2011-02-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/8/2011 5:25 PM, Paul Maier wrote: The best thing to do is to skip any flags for 'ls'. If cygwin has to open the file to fill in a particular piece of data, you're going to see significant delays on a slow file-system/driver. So the difference is, that ls -l openes all files, reading in