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Re: Optimizing away "ReadFile" calls when Make calls stat()
> > 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?
$ mount --h
...
-x treat all files under mount point as executables.
> 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.
winsup/utils/mount.cc sets it. <sys/mount.h> defines
MOUNT_CYGWIN_EXEC but look for PATH_ALL_EXEC to see where
it's relevent (in path.{cc,h}).
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