From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 10 16:35:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA23692 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 16:35:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA23687 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 16:35:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.7.5/CET-v2.1) with SMTP id XAA09589; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 23:35:31 GMT Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 08:35:31 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: Terry Lambert cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: namei performance (was Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux 96 (my impressions)) In-Reply-To: <199609101734.KAA03032@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > 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). Microsoft, Japan Inc., and other successful organizations aren't caught up with the originality of ideas, neither should we. Anyway, I didn't mean to imply credit for the prior art, just for the idea of using it in this case. 8-) 8-) Regards, Mike Hancock