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Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 17:53:02 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: "hostname" takes 3.5 seconds
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On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 04:37:07PM +0000, Niall DOT Smart AT friendsfirst DOT ie wrote:
> Anyone know why calling hostname takes 3.5 seconds?
> 
> Most of the time seems to be spent in cygwin_gethostname and ExitProcess:
> 
>    28   28924 [main] hostname 268 wsock_init: lpVendorInfo 0
> 1017292 1046216 [main] hostname 268 cygwin_gethostname: name ffwd10657

Hmm, doesn't happen for me.  If you look into the source code you'll find
that Cygwin isn't doing costly stuff:  It just calls gethostname() from
WinSock.  Something's not quite correct with your settings I guess.

Corinna

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