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RE: File operations speed-up
- To: "'Gnu-Win32'" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'Rick Rankin'" <rrankin at primenet dot com>
- Subject: RE: File operations speed-up
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 12:36:26 +0300
- Encoding: 19 TEXT
Rick Rankin wrote:
> What are you going to do about backup utilities that clear this bit when
a
> file has been backed up? I assume that there are still backup utilities
out
> there that use the archive bit for determining when a file needs to be
> backed up.
If archive bit is cleared, the speed-up code will not work, current
cygwin's slow code will do all the work. But You are right - if backup
utulity don't back up files with this bit cleared, all executables and
symlinks will not be backed up. It's up to You - to use or not to use this
patch :-)
--
Sergey Okhapkin
Moscow, Russia
Looking for a job.
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