X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4e41f5c20703282001w79eab859v29930cc110e85ab5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:01:39 -0600 From: "Morgan Gangwere" <0 DOT fractalus AT gmail DOT com> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: slow bash spawn In-Reply-To: <001201c77138$e4a27db0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <001201c77138$e4a27db0$2e08a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 3/28/07, Dave Korn wrote: > On 27 March 2007 21:13, Ken Fast wrote: > > > > My problem now is that your fix does not seem to apply to my case. I do > > not have a > > c:\windows\system32\dla\dlactrlw.exe, but instead have a tfswctrl.exe. In > > the Sonic help > > there is information on DLA. It would appear that I have it turned on for > > my machine, even > > though I can't see it in the Task Manager. (As a corporate user on this > > machine I can't > > get into the registry or services to look.) > > > > Any other ideas? > > Well, as a corporate user, your best bet is to go talk to your IT people and > explain that it's causing a problem with the cygwin tools that you need to use > to do your job and could they uninstall it for you please? The DLA software > is used for (udfs) packet-based cd burning by dragging and dropping files to > the cd in explorer. You won't be able to read or write packet-based discs any > more but you'll still be able to read and burn standard disc-at-once or > track-at-once cds. > > UDFS is a PITA anyway. Non-standard, plagued by buggy drivers and > implementations, you're better off without it. I once had some UDFS > packet-burning software on my w2k box that thought it had a really bright > idea: it put a standard-format boot sector/autorun track (I forget exactly > which) on every UDFS disc, that would run any time you inserted the disk in a > machine without a UDFS driver and install one. > > Unfortunately the UDFS driver it installed was buggy. So what you really > got was a disc which when you inserted it into a machine, it immediately > BSoD'd the machine. > > But not before configuring the buggy driver to autostart in early boot. > > So after you take the disk out you're left with a brick that just > auto-self-destructs every time you boot it up. > > > > Took a while to fix that one. > > > > > > > > This is why I feel that UDFS must die. > one word: TITTTL > > > Ken > > > > > > > > > > xx > > Let's keep it on a professional basis, please! ;-) > > cheers, > DaveK > -- > Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > as i said, bash and sh are the Same File. I would ask the Bash-devel people about this, because its become one -- Morgan gangwere "Space does not reflect society, it expresses it." -- Castells, M., Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age, in The Cybercities Reader, S. Graham, Editor. 2004, Routledge: London. p. 82-93. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/