On 11/29/05, Ivan Gyurdiev ivg2@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 -- Tom London