From: "Magnus Bäck" <baeck@swipnet•se>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Implementing stat() with FindFirstFile()
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:39:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090326213907.GC27249@jeeves.jpl.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49CB2BA5.1070100@viscovery.net>
On Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 08:15 CET,
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery•net> wrote:
> 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.
I'd be very surprised if ZwQueryDirectoryFile() hasn't always
been around (I just verified ntdll.dll from NT 4.0), so that's
not a worry. Don't know why MSDN reports it as introduced in XP.
> It's on you to prove that there are advantages that clearly
> outweigh these disadvantages.
All right, I'll see if I can find time to take a look at this.
I just wanted to check that it wasn't a project policy or whatever
to bypass Win32.
--
Magnus Bäck
baeck@swipnet•se
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-26 21:40 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
2009-03-26 21:39 ` Magnus Bäck [this message]
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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