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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:48:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Neal Symms <nsymms AT redwar DOT us>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: bash backtick operator very slow
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On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Neal Symms wrote:

> I've searched for anyone having similar problems, but can't find anything.
> Here's the gist:
>
> ~$ time hostname
> MY_HOSTNAME
> real    0m0.111s
> user    0m0.060s
> sys     0m0.040s
>
> ~$ time echo hello
> hello
> real    0m0.000s
> user    0m0.000s
> sys     0m0.000s
>
> ~$ time echo `hostname`
> MY_HOSTNAME
> real    0m6.175s
> user    0m0.060s
> sys     0m0.050s
>
> ..and that was a fast one.  Usually it takes > 7 seconds.  I'm running
> cygwin under Win2K in a domain environment.  I don't have this problem when
> running the same exact setup on a non-domain machine.  Anyone seen anything
> like this before?

Does <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00730.html> help?

> I have no network drives in my PATH.  Bash version is 3.1-4, cygwin DLL
> version is 1.5.13.  The sh shell has the same behavior.  I don't have
> ash, but I suppose I could try that one too...

FYI, "/bin/sh" *is* ash.
	Igor
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