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From: Scott Atwood <atwood AT CS DOT Stanford DOT EDU>
Message-Id: <200111052236.OAA26238@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Re: 30 second startup delay on Cygwin programs from SYSTEM account
To: robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au (Robert Collins)
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:36:06 -0800 (PST)
Cc: atwood AT CS DOT Stanford DOT EDU (Scott Atwood), cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
In-Reply-To: <1004399998.9189.250.camel@lifelesswks> from "Robert Collins" at Oct 30, 2001 10:59:56 AM
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Robert Collins writes:
> 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 Server: 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?

No and no.

> Are you running NBT?

Yes.

> Are you running NTLM?

No.

> Are you running the Server process?

Yes.

> Are you running the workstation process?

Yes.

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