Re: bug #17457: "grep -r foo . > somefile" goes into an infinite loop

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 07/26/2011 12:18 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Regarding NTFS, can you point to a real gnulib-using application that is
> misbehaving because of this?  I've seen that some NTFS implementations
> *do*  have usable inode support.  Both cygwin and fuse-based ones do,
> so you must mean mingw.

Yes, I mean mingw.  I was quoting MS docs.

> >  However, we could fix that in gnulib.
>
> Is it possible to do that without a run-time penalty?

We would need to reimplement stat on MinGW.  So it would completely 
bypass the C library and should have comparable performance.  If not, 
you pay the price on MinGW only.

I'll run some tests on a real Windows machine.

Paolo