From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but the linux can't for a long time
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 18:45:50 +0100
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Am Montag, 9. Januar 2006 18:31 schrieb Alan Cox:
> On Llu, 2006-01-09 at 17:53 +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Does the Windows Explorer draw icons based only on name and metadata?
> 
> Sort of. It also plays tricks on the human by working out what icons are
> visible and loading those first then filling in while the user thinks it
> is ready

That's lazy evaluation. Actually quite clever.

	Regards
		Oliver
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