Re: Integration of gmc and nautilus desktop directories.

["Ian McKellar " <ian eazel com>]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 02:47:51PM -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> 
> > Thats gonna kill battery life on laptops - could you make this a preference
> > rather than hard-coded?
> 
> That would be the case if your kernel is MS-DOS, on Unix systems the
> information would be kept in the buffer cache.  So unless there are
> changes to the directory, the stat() syscall wont even touch the hard
> drive.

Hmm... Duh...

I shouldn't send email before I have my first espresso. Of course the real
long-term solution to this is Seth's FAM patch :)

Ian