From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: "Magnus Bäck" <baeck@swipnet.se>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Implementing stat() with FindFirstFile()
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:15:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49CB2BA5.1070100@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090324215416.GB27249@jeeves.jpl.local>
Magnus Bäck schrieb:
> From what I gather the problematic conversion takes place in the Win32
> layer, in which case we might be able to call the ZwQueryDirectoryFile()
> kernel routine directly via ntdll.dll to obtain the file times straight
> from the file system. Has anyone explored that path, and would it be
> acceptable to make such a change?
It depends.
The disadvantages are that this function is only available on Windows XP
and later and that it is not present in the header files of MinGW gcc.
It's on you to prove that there are advantages that clearly outweigh these
disadvantages.
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-26 7:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-21 15:47 Implementing stat() with FindFirstFile() Magnus Bäck
2009-03-21 19:55 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-03-24 21:54 ` Magnus Bäck
2009-03-26 7:15 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2009-03-26 21:39 ` Magnus Bäck
2009-03-27 2:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-29 22:48 ` Magnus Bäck
2009-03-30 0:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-30 5:11 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-03-30 22:07 ` Heiko Voigt
2009-03-30 23:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-31 20:32 ` Magnus Bäck
2009-03-31 20:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-01 9:28 ` Nazri Ramliy
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