From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/11] path.cc: Allow to skip filesystem checks
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:25:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210119092531.GL59030@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a1fb688c-a327-940a-ec99-651760ce02eb@wijen.net>
On Jan 18 18:15, Ben wrote:
>
>
> On 18-01-2021 12:36, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-patches wrote:
> > On Jan 15 14:45, Ben Wijen wrote:
> >
> > Without any code setting the flag, this doesn't seem to make any
> > sense. At least the commit message should reflect on the reasons
> > for this change.
> >
> Something like this:
> path.cc: Allow to skip filesystem checks
>
> When file attributes are of no concern, there is no point to query them.
> This can greatly speedup code which doesn't need it.
>
> For example, this can be used to try a path without filesystem checks first
> and try again with filesystem checks
>
>
> If you want, I can also squash some of these related commits.
That's not necessary, but a log msg hint along the lines of "in
preparation of <what follow up patch is doing>" would help.
However, just to be clear here. While I really appreciate your efforts,
I'm not sure yet if we really *can* skip the filesystem checks. This is
dangerous but often perpetrated territory. Trying to work around
certain checks almost always resulted in other problems in the past,
like POSIX/Linux incompatibilities or forgetting to handle Windows
quirks. A certain callousness and high frustration barrier are
required.
Thanks,
Corinna
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-19 9:25 UTC|newest]
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2021-01-15 13:45 [PATCH 00/11] Improve rm speed Ben Wijen
2021-01-15 13:45 ` [PATCH 01/11] syscalls.cc: unlink_nt: Try FILE_DISPOSITION_IGNORE_READONLY_ATTRIBUTE first Ben Wijen
2021-01-18 10:25 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-18 10:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-18 12:11 ` Ben
2021-01-18 12:22 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-18 14:30 ` Ben
2021-01-18 14:39 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-18 14:59 ` Ben
2021-01-15 13:45 ` [PATCH 02/11] syscalls.cc: Deduplicate _remove_r Ben Wijen
2021-01-18 10:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-18 12:40 ` Ben
2021-01-18 13:04 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-18 13:51 ` Ben
2021-01-18 14:49 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-18 14:58 ` Ben
2021-01-15 13:45 ` [PATCH 03/11] syscalls.cc: Fix num_links Ben Wijen
2021-01-18 11:01 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-15 13:45 ` [PATCH 04/11] syscalls.cc: Use EISDIR Ben Wijen
2021-01-18 11:06 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-15 13:45 ` [PATCH 05/11] Cygwin: Move post-dir unlink check Ben Wijen
2021-01-18 11:08 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-18 14:31 ` Ben
2021-01-18 14:52 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-15 13:45 ` [PATCH 06/11] cxx.cc: Fix dynamic initialization for static local variables Ben Wijen
2021-01-18 11:33 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-15 13:45 ` [PATCH 07/11] syscalls.cc: Implement non-path_conv dependent _unlink_nt Ben Wijen
2021-01-18 10:51 ` Ben
2021-01-15 13:45 ` [PATCH 08/11] path.cc: Allow to skip filesystem checks Ben Wijen
2021-01-18 11:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-18 17:15 ` Ben
2021-01-19 9:25 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2021-01-15 13:45 ` [PATCH 09/11] mount.cc: Implement poor-man's cache Ben Wijen
2021-01-18 11:51 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-02-03 11:38 ` Ben
2021-02-04 19:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-15 13:45 ` [PATCH 10/11] syscalls.cc: Expose shallow-pathconv unlink_nt Ben Wijen
2021-01-15 13:45 ` [PATCH 11/11] dir.cc: Try unlink_nt first Ben Wijen
2021-01-18 12:13 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-18 17:07 ` Ben
2021-01-18 17:18 ` Ben
2021-01-19 9:54 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-20 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] Improve rm speed Ben Wijen
2021-01-20 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] syscalls.cc: unlink_nt: Try FILE_DISPOSITION_IGNORE_READONLY_ATTRIBUTE Ben Wijen
2021-01-22 10:52 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-22 15:47 ` [PATCH v3 " Ben Wijen
2021-01-25 10:30 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-20 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] syscalls.cc: Deduplicate remove Ben Wijen
2021-01-22 12:22 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-22 15:47 ` [PATCH v3 " Ben Wijen
2021-01-25 18:58 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-20 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] Cygwin: Move post-dir unlink check Ben Wijen
2021-01-22 12:35 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-20 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] syscalls.cc: Implement non-path_conv dependent _unlink_nt Ben Wijen
2021-01-26 11:34 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-02-03 11:03 ` Ben
2021-02-04 19:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-20 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] path.cc: Allow to skip filesystem checks Ben Wijen
2021-01-20 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] syscalls.cc: Expose shallow-pathconv unlink_nt Ben Wijen
2021-01-26 11:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-20 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] dir.cc: Try unlink_nt first Ben Wijen
2021-01-26 11:46 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-27 9:22 ` Ben
2021-01-20 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] fhandler_disk_file.cc: Use path_conv's IndexNumber Ben Wijen
2021-01-26 12:15 ` Corinna Vinschen
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