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Re: [PATCH] improve performance of stat() operations (e.g. ls -lR )
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 10:23:39PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
> You can get nearly all of the information that you need from
> FindFirstFile. Unfortunately, GetFileInformationByHandle() seems to be
> the only available function which returns the hard link count of a file.
What about taking the FS into account here? We could perhaps speedup
stat() for FAT/FAT32 since the hard link count is always 1 for files
then. We could completely skip the open() call if the file isn't
already open (as in fstat(2)). The FS info is already available from
path_conv::check().
Corinna
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