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Date:	Sun, 12 Oct 2003 16:28:55 +0930
From:	Milton Woods <milton DOT woods AT adelaide DOT edu DOT au>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Pause after Calling ExitProcess
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> I have found that some external programs invoked from a shell take a 
> long time to return control to the shell on exit. For example, typing
> 'hostname<enter>' at the command prompt displays a response within about
> 1 second, but the prompt does not appear for another 3 seconds (on a 
> 1.6GHz P4).

The problem was caused by the Novell client (version 4.5). Upgrading to the
latest version (4.9) made Cygwin much more responsive.

Milton Woods.

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