X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <5069D273.6060507@cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:27:15 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit References: <5068AEF2.6040006@rosi-kessel.org> <5069BE59.5030303@malth.us> <5069C743.5090908@cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-CORNELL-SPAM-CHECKED: Pawpaw X-Original-Sender: kbrown@cornell.edu - Mon Oct 1 13:27:13 2012 X-PMX-CORNELL-REASON: CU_White_List_Override X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 10/1/2012 12:55 PM, Adam Kessel wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >>>> Did you at least try chainging your ${HOME} to somewhere normal and >>>> seeing >>>> what happens? Perhaps SkyDrive has some feature that makes Cygwin crazy. >>>> For example, your cygwin could have inotify listeners on ${HOME} which >>>> could >>> Yeah, I tried setting ${HOME} to /cygdrive/c and "c:\" and even just >>> "/" with no change in results. >> I don't know if this has anything to do with your problem, but I wouldn't >> call any of these settings of $HOME "normal". I think most people leave >> $HOME unset, in which case it gets set to /home/username during a Cygwin >> session. > > At least in my experience, standard cygwin install doesn't create > anything under /home. In a standard Cygwin install, the script /etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh runs 'mkpasswd -l -c > /etc/passwd', which sets the home directory for each user. Normally this is /home/username, but you can check it by looking at /etc/passwd. Then the first time you start a shell, /etc/profile creates the home directory (as specified in /etc/passwd) if it doesn't exist. This assumes that HOME is not set in the Windows environment. Are you seeing something different? Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple