On Jul 27 13:48, aldana wrote: >> isn't there a possibitly that cygwin provides a quicker cp-implementation? > i mean 4 minutes for a copy of 70MB to a memstick (instead of CopyFile() 20 > sec.) is not really good performance. > i guess there is a reason for that... Right, how did you know? The reason is that cp is a portable implementation using simple reads and writes to perform the copy. There's no such thing as a CopyFile routine on POSIX systems. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/