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Date:      Tue, 10 Sep 1996 10:34:40 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock)
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: namei performance (was Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux 96 (my impressions))
Message-ID:  <199609101734.KAA03032@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.93.960910092153.1234A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> from "Michael Hancock" at Sep 10, 96 09:30:49 am

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> I like the pre-parsing of the pathname into components idea for all these
> reasons.  Freeing the code from delimiter processing is definitely a win.

I can't take credit; there's a lot of prior art for doing things this
way.  Microsfot does things this way in Win95 and NT, and they were not
the first to do it (path cannonization).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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