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Subject: Re: [PATCH] add GIT_FAST_STAT mode for Cygwin
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2008/9/24 Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>:
> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2008/9/24 Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>:
>> >
>> > However Dmitry pointed out that he has cases where this faster
>> > function doesn't work correctly, and it was path specific. Some
>> > areas of the filesystem work, others don't, on the same system.
>>
>> Huh?! What are they? What paths require cygwin's handling
>> which aren't handled already? (the absolute paths are handled).
>
> Cygwin lets you mount a filesystem at a different part of the
> filesystem.

Ewwww... Yes, you're right. Disgusting feature. Just when I
thought Cygwin cannot get any worse...
Config parameter looks like the only way to workaround that.

> Sort of like Linux's mount -t bind (IIRC).

Except that in Linux the binding is part of the filesystem namespace,
not a special knowledge of some stupid library.