From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timothy Reaves To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Time taken for ls -la --color=yes Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <199903081638.LAA11084@y11a165.neo.rr.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00236.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.1wRuteLPHKCZgBl7Icb8olMmS6_tOp8tCCsDY_wqApY@z> >If you add the color or F switches then the CYGWIN1.DLL has to >determine the type of file. It will be opening every regular file >listed and reading a line from the file in order to determine the type >of the file. You can imagine the overhead involved in this. No, I guess I can't, as bash under unix does not take this long, and it would have to do the same thing. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com