On 11/29/05, Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2(a)cornell.edu> wrote:
> Quite the difference, no?
>
Maybe this could be generalized (what's special about /dev?).
"make install" does not need to analyze all the paths on the system
(per file!)...
Hmm....
This sort of suggests a different file organization, no?
How about 'overlaying' something like a trie or some search tree
organized by directory 'prefixes' (e.g., '/dev', '/lib', etc.).
Should
be possible to organize the general matching cases into one bucket.
tom
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Tom London