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On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 02:00:09PM -0400, John Wiersba wrote: >I have just been looking into installing one of the later versions of >cygwin1.dll (to overcome the bug with the doubling up of .. and . file name >components which was screwing up the install of the grep 2.3 package). >However, all the recent snapshots that I've tried, including as far back as >July, have a serious problem with a long (2+ seconds) pause before many >programs run. This doesn't happen at all with the .dll dated 1/16/99. Bash >internal commands (like cd) don't have the pause problem and with some >programs the pause is shorter. > >In fact, things are so screwed up under the 9/14 snapshot that vim needs to >get several key presses before it will finish painting the terminal window >and each command needs a few keypresses after it before it appears to be >performed. That would be a *bug* in the 9/14 snapshot. >I wrote a short script: > >#!/bin/ksh >ls | cat | cat | cat | cat | cat | cat | cat | cat >/dev/null > >When I run it in a directory with 21 plain files, it takes 5 seconds to >return to the prompt. With the 1/16 .dll, it takes less than 1 second. It takes less than a second for me with the latest DLL. >How can I diagnose what's going on? gdb or strace. >BTW, I looked in the 5/23 cyginw-inst tarball (which I had previously >downloaded) for strace but only found strace.h. Where is strace.exe to be >found? Why would you assume that the 5/23 cygwin-inst would work with the 9/14 cygwin DLL? >I'm including cygcheck -s -v output. I notice that the mount info seems to >be screwed up. Could this be the problem? However, when I do a mount >command, I get: > > Device Directory Type Flags > D: / user binmode > A: /a/a user binmode > C: /c user binmode > >Why would cygcheck's mount information be different than mount's? That could be another bug. It would be worthwhile to use the latest version of cygcheck. -chris -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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