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Re: ls -p very slow


Alex wrote:
> 
> Shortcuts are those bloody .lnk files, but not just available to the GUI
> proggies, but to all Win32 programs, afaik they don't have INI style
> syntax.  They do however have various API functions that would probably
> provide a [small] speedup.  I'm thinking that the stat functions (or
> whatever ls is using) would only check .lnk files for shortcuts, and if it
> _is_ a shortcut, then the .lnk is truncated within gnu-win32, and if it's
> not a shortcut then, it's treated as a regular file (with the .lnk
> extension).
> 
> - alex
> 
I thought those kinds of links were only usable for files tho?  At least
from windows explorer you cant create links to directories...  Or maybe
im wrong?

Paul
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