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

[Jim Meyering]

Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 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.

I don't know about typical mingw file system usage.
Do mingw users use NTFS often?

google searches for "mingw ntfs" (716k) suggest it's
more often written about than "mingw ext3" (318k).