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Re: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0

by Corinna Vinschen-2 :: Rate this Message:

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On Jul 27 13:48, aldana wrote:
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> isn't there a possibitly that cygwin provides a quicker cp-implementation?
> i mean 4 minutes for a copy of 70MB to a memstick (instead of CopyFile() 20
> sec.) is not really good performance.  
> i guess there is a reason for that...

Right, how did you know?  The reason is that cp is a portable
implementation using simple reads and writes to perform the copy.
There's no such thing as a CopyFile routine on POSIX systems.


Corinna

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