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From: Vincenzo Ciancia <vincenzo_mlRE.MOVE@yahoo.it>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] non-blocking Unix.*stat functions?
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:07:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410291007.56792.vincenzo_mlRE.MOVE@yahoo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041028214504.GA1279@old.davidb.org>

On Thursday 28 October 2004 23:45, David Brown wrote:
> Well, in "ordinary" filesystems, stat and friends don't generally
> take very much time, which is probably why they aren't blocking.

Not quite, there is the cd reader; on a newly inserted cdrom for 
example: 

vincenzo@ronzinante vincenzo $ cd /mnt/cdrom
vincenzo@ronzinante cdrom $ time stat .
[...]

real    0m11.966s

this is also a problem with the Unix.LargeFile module of course. 

Vincenzo

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      reply	other threads:[~2004-10-29  8:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-28 20:06 Vincenzo Ciancia
2004-10-28 21:45 ` [Caml-list] " David Brown
2004-10-29  8:07   ` Vincenzo Ciancia [this message]

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