Optimizing away "ReadFile" calls when Make calls stat()

Tue Feb 13 11:56:00 GMT 2001

> Date: 2001年2月13日 14:54:01 -0500
> From: DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>
>> Perhaps you could
> propose a set of mount flags to optimize common situations? We
> already have one to avoid the read-for-execute test,

Could you elaborate on that?
> perhaps you could
> work on an assume-no-symlinks flag? Then we wouldn't need a custom
> make.exe (or any other program).

I think that's a very good idea. If you tell me a little bit more
about the read-for-execute mount flag, with which I'm not familiar, I
can look into implementing a similar thing for symbolic links.
Thanks,
 jik
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