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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs vs mount points 
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Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 19:42:29 +0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
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Bruce Evans wrote:
> cvs usually begins by lstat'ing all parent directories up to "/" and
> then all entries in "/".  There are usually a lot of mount points in
> "/" and lstat'ing them can take a long time if their vnodes are not
> cached.  E.g., my IDE cdrom on /b takes a couple of seconds to start
> up.
> 
> Bruce

It's just doing a getcwd() library call I think..

Cheers,
-Peter