Subject: RE: 30 second startup delay on Cygwin programs from SYSTEM accoun t
From: Heribert Dahms <[email-masked]>
To: "'Robert Collins'" <[email-masked]>, Scott Atwood <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 22:48:28 +0100

Hi,

so would it make sense to bypass domain stuff for LocalSystem
by extending the condition in internal_getlogin at line 47
(between the two debug_printf's below) with sth like:

if (wincap.has_security () && strcmp(username, "SYSTEM")) ...

Bye, Heribert ([email-masked])

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Robert Collins [SMTP:[email-masked]]
> Sent:	Tuesday, October 30, 2001 01:00
> To:	Scott Atwood
> Cc:	[email-masked]
> Subject:	Re: 30 second startup delay on Cygwin programs from SYSTEM
> account
> 
> 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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