[Bug 26658] Steam startup is slow

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26658

--- Comment #6 from Erich Hoover  2012-07-17 10:59:53 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> ...
> Anyway, how I believe this relates to the startup taking forever is that steam
> is always searching the entire drive for its files (since it is doing an
> inode-based lookup).  So, I think that what we need is a cache of files where
> NtQueryInformationFile has returned an inode value so that calls to
> NtCreateFile with FILE_OPEN_BY_FILE_ID can search the "recently returned inode
> list" before it looks through the entire drive.

I'm not entirely sure this is why Steam takes so long to load, but I do have a
thought about fixing this particular problem...  It should be possible to
accelerate the search by using /proc/<wine pid>/fd/* to get a head start on
finding out which file corresponds to the inode.