Cygwin Performance and stat()

[Dave Korn]

On 30/05/2010 22:39, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> If someone
> is ingenuous enough to make an improvement it's hard to believe that
> they wouldn't be ingenuous enough to send a patch to cygwin-patches.

   No, it isn't.  (I'm assuming you meant ingenious rather than ingenuous,
because it doesn't make sense the other way.)

> Or, if they are ingenous enough but just like to lurk in the cygwin
> mailing list so that they can send private email with secret patches
> then I'd have to suspect the quality of the patch itself.

  That's the same-but-opposite as an argument from authority fallacy.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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