Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/11/22/12:00:11
David,
The odd thing is that the delay occurred on a file (in a directory) that,
according to Carlo, do not exist. Nor do they exist on my system even
though I have all of the Cygwin packages installed (including XFree86/Cygwin).
Why would a simple attempt to access a non-existent file trigger a nearly
two-second delay in an anti-virus subsystem?
Does Windows have some kind of "auto-mount" capability for accessing remote
file systems? If it did and it were somehow triggered by the attempt to
access that directory it could explain the delay?
Could there be a Windows mount (not a Cygwin mount) active for that
directory that refers to a network drive letter with an invalid server
association? (Is that even possible?)
Carlo, you could try one of these commands:
mountvol 'F:\cygwin\usr\local\etc' /l
mountvol 'F:\cygwin\usr\local\etc\zoneinfo' /l
mountvol 'F:\cygwin\usr\local\etc\zoneinfo\posixrules' /l
to see if Windows has a mountvol association with the directories involved
in the problem.
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
At 05:08 2002-11-22, David Starks-Browning wrote:
>Carlo,
>
>Do you have any anti-virus software running? 'ls -l' has to open each
>file, and this typically triggers your AV software to scan it. Depending
>on your AV product, and how you have configured it, this might explain
>unusual delays.
>
>If you do have AV software running, try repeating the tests with it
>disabled, and report back.
>
>Thanks,
>David
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