Subject: Re: 30 second startup delay on Cygwin programs from SYSTEM account
From: Robert Collins <[email-masked]>
To: Scott Atwood <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: 30 Oct 2001 10:59:56 +1100

On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 11:07, Scott Atwood wrote:
 
> I ran "strace bash" as user SYSTEM and here is an excerpt of the output.
> 
>  2949  226918 [main] bash 1428 internal_getlogin: GetUserName() = SYSTEM
> 30450200 30677118 [main] bash 1428 internal_getlogin: Domain: (null), Logon Serv
> er: CHARON, Windows Username: SYSTEM
> 
> The output paused for about 30 seconds after the first line printed, and
> before the second line printed.

Right, here's whats happening:
SYSTEM doesn't belong to any network groups - it's local only, but
Cygwin is trying to find out it's network data - such as the home
domain.

Cygwin spawned/forked/execed process's can inherit that data in the
cygwin heap IIRC. Which is why no delay is seen - it's been optimised
away. But there would be a 30 second delay firing up bash.

As for why the 30 second delay in the first place, what's your system
config:
Are you a member of a win2k AD or an NT4 domain?
Are you running NBT?
Are you running NTLM?
Are you running the Server process?
Are you running the workstation process?

Cheers,
Rob

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