[comp.unix.wizards] symlinks slow?

thomas@spline.UUCP (03/23/87)

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)