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From: thomas@spline.UUCP
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Subject: symlinks slow? (was Re: /usr a misnomer?)
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Date: Mon, 23-Mar-87 15:27:39 EST
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Question was "what is the performance hit for linking /usr/tmp to /tmp
(or vice-versa) with a symlink".  Well, since you only incur any
performance degradation in the open call, I would expect the "hit" to
be very small, unless you spend most of your time opening files.

=Spencer   ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@cs.utah.edu)