On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 11:11:07PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >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.
A few weeks ago there was a guy in libc-alpha mailing list complaining that glibc's API wasn't as rich and powerful as what is found on Windows. As far as I know he's still alive. cgf -- 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/
