Re: CVS Emacs on Windows XP takes 60 seconds to start

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:30:49 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Is this the first time you built the CVS code?  If not, when was the
> last time you built it (and I presume saw no such slowdown)?

Assuming the slowdown started to happen lately, please see if it goes
away if you modify the code of the function `stat' to make this `if'
condition (on w32.c)


  if (!(NILP (Vw32_get_true_file_attributes)
	|| (EQ (Vw32_get_true_file_attributes, Qlocal)
	    && devtype != DRIVE_FIXED && devtype != DRIVE_RAMDISK))
      /* No access rights required to get info.  */
      && (fh = CreateFile (name, 0, 0, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING,
			   FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS, NULL))
         != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)

to always evaluate to zero, thus bypassing the code in the block that
follows the `if' clause and calls get_file_owner_and_group.