> I wonder if, these days, there are any better ways of doing what this > code is doing. As I said, this code has been this way for years. > Increasing the timeout is going to have a negative effect on cygwin tty > programs. > > Wait. Hmm. This is only going to be a problem for programs run directly > via a windows console, right? It shouldn't be a problem for a child of > bash since it is inheriting the tty handle explicitly. > > So, a slowdown should only be in an initial cygwin process. Is this what > you're seeing? The problem occurs clicking on a shortcut in explorer - the console window takes a little while to open and sometimes it simply takes too long for the tty code to catch it.
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