From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastien Carpe 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: <36E40422.157007C1@atos-group.com> References: <199903081638.LAA11084@y11a165.neo.rr.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00241.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.ODmWRuqZXgr4cLfVRQ5R6JuWouz3kzcNQ4yf4DDE-LY@z> Timothy Reaves wrote: > > >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. And it does ... but the Unixes file systems stores a lot more informations that the NTFS does, therefore open less files... On the other side, may be cygwin is a bit slow at opening files.. On my side, running ls --color=yes on my NT box on a Unix directory through samba seems to take forever on large directory (well, may be not htat much, but i'm a pretty impatient guy regarding those things). -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com