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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 02:20:46 -0700
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
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Subject: Re: Overhead involved when accessing a symlink?
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* Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> [000718 02:15] wrote:
> Hello,
> we've got some the stuff on our website symlinked to other places in
> the filesystem. Can anyone provide some rough data about the overhead
> involved in accessing these files compared to accessing by their
> "direct" (not symlinked) URL?

Afaik after being used once, it's in the namecache which means only a
couple of extra strcmp() and pointer dereferences.

-Alfred


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