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Hugh Sasse
I'm finding under Cygwin, with
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i386-cygwin]
that if I Dir.glob(path) for a path under /cygdrive/c, the floppy
drive is accessed. I'm trying to avoid a Huge recursive glob that
for a user appears to just hang, so I trying to descend directories
recursively, but this is slowed down a lot, because for every glob
the floppy drive becomes active for about half a second, and it's
noisy [!].
There have been problems with 1.7 Cygwin always accessing the floppy,
but this is 1.5.25, so that should not matter.
Has anyone else seen this, and is there a workaround? I need tools
that I have under Cygwin only, so not using Cygwin here will involve
a lot more work to find other tools to do those parts that presently
work.
also, is anything else faster than Dir.glob? I'll have a look at
File.find later, in case that is, but it would be nice to know....
Thank you,
Hugh
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i386-cygwin]
that if I Dir.glob(path) for a path under /cygdrive/c, the floppy
drive is accessed. I'm trying to avoid a Huge recursive glob that
for a user appears to just hang, so I trying to descend directories
recursively, but this is slowed down a lot, because for every glob
the floppy drive becomes active for about half a second, and it's
noisy [!].
There have been problems with 1.7 Cygwin always accessing the floppy,
but this is 1.5.25, so that should not matter.
Has anyone else seen this, and is there a workaround? I need tools
that I have under Cygwin only, so not using Cygwin here will involve
a lot more work to find other tools to do those parts that presently
work.
also, is anything else faster than Dir.glob? I'll have a look at
File.find later, in case that is, but it would be nice to know....
Thank you,
Hugh