On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 20:48 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 07:26:03PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > > The post script is forking hardlink over 5000 times as well as causing > > thousands of repeated directory lookups by find and the shell (that > > hardlink then has to do anyway), instead of just letting one run of > > hardlink do its job (it should recurse just fine). > > I've often wondered why it was written that way too. > Arjan, do you recall ? It does it so that you ensure that you're only hardlinking the same copy of any foo.h in the directory layout instead of all copies Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
