From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-developers@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Root directory being a junction fools realpath()
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 14:09:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YC5m8+9NsS0fG0qT@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH2Hv8+Sgf61UoqQtMdYatWCXNuhhn4qdcQGcte92iNY++pnBA@mail.gmail.com>
On Feb 18 12:46, David Macek via Cygwin-developers wrote:
> Thank you for diagnosing.
>
> > > This isn't realpath's fault. You're circumventing the mount point
> > > handling
>
> It was not my intention. :) It's just due to my sharing scripts and
> configurations between various machines (with varying disk layouts and
> sizes), I sometimes need to use links to work around things.
>
> [...]
>
> > I just wonder if such a bordercase is worth the extra performance hit
> > for each Cygwin invocation.
>
> Of course I'd like to see it resolved, but I don't remember any
> non-cosmetic issue caused by it, *so far*. Is there an estimate of
> how big of a slow-down the fix causes?
No, somebody would have to test this. Probably it's not that much...
Corinna
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-18 13:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-14 11:56 David Macek
2021-02-15 12:25 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-02-15 13:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-02-18 11:46 ` David Macek
2021-02-18 13:09 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2021-02-19 18:24 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-03-07 13:15 ` David Macek
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