Slow FFExpandUNCFileName

[Franz-Leo Chomse [TPX]]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 16:01:37 +0100, "Arnd Iffland" <iff...@rdv.de> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>can somebody give me a hint why the first call to FFExpandUNCFileName (or
>the function WNetGetUniversalName that is called) takes about 4 seconds on a
>Win98 PC? Is there something i can do to speed up this function?

You might trigger a DNS lookup to update the internal DNS cache.

Regards from Germany

Franz-Leo

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[Eivind Bakkestuen [TPX]]

Probably the network sublayer needs to do some initialization/network
enumeration on the first try. You could spawn a thread on program startup
that did this once, so the subsequent calls would go fast.

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"Arnd Iffland" <iff...@rdv.de> wrote in message
news:CJhga$msCHA...@tpsmail01.turbopower.net...

> Hi,
>
> can somebody give me a hint why the first call to FFExpandUNCFileName (or
> the function WNetGetUniversalName that is called) takes about 4 seconds on
a
> Win98 PC? Is there something i can do to speed up this function?
>

> Thanks and a have a good 2003,
>
> Arnd
>
>

[Arnd Iffland]