Subject: File(1) still sssllllooooowwwwww.
To: BSD Current Users <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/17/2000 08:23:23
Can I ask why file(1) takes 8 seconds or more on an SS2 to determine
what kind of file a _symlink_ is (and whither it points)?

Shouldn't the magic file read be deferred until it actually hits a
file?

...Should I PR this?  That a simple file utility should take 8 seconds
to start just floors me.

...p'raps I should rebuild it and see what happens.  Do we need to
do something to convert magic into magic.db?

				--*greywolf;
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