On a freshly installed and configured Windows XP machine with a fresh install of a recent Cygwin, we noticed that every non-builtin command took about a second to start.
The PATH started with /usr/bin:/bin as the first dirs, and then also included much later a symlink to a samba shared script area (/usr/local/script --> //samba/script). On this particular machine, just having /usr/local/script in the PATH slowed down *every* command. Even commands like "ls", much earlier in the path suffered the problem. Any idea why? I ran an strace on rxvt (which is how I diagnosed the problem - saw what it was doing the output streaming past stopped). Any idea why this machine (same network, same domain) has this problem, and others don't? Here's a dramatically trimmed down bit of the strace output: ********************************************** Program name: C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe (3388) App version: 1003.9, api: 0.51 DLL version: 1003.12, api: 0.54 DLL build: 2002-07-06 02:16 OS version: Windows NT-5.1 Date/Time: 2002-09-25 09:43:01 ********************************************** 556 1025 [main] rxvt 3388 environ_init: 0xA010420: !C:=C:\cygwin\bin 91 1116 [main] rxvt 3388 environ_init: 0xA010438: ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users 125 1241 [main] rxvt 3388 environ_init: 0xA010470: APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\desmolej\Application Data 114 1355 [main] rxvt 3388 environ_init: 0xA0104B0: CLIENTNAME=Console 71 1426 [main] rxvt 3388 environ_init: 0xA0104C8: COMMONPROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files\Common Files 154 1580 [main] rxvt 3388 environ_init: 0xA010500: COMPUTERNAME=ZOLTAN 59 1639 [main] rxvt 3388 environ_init: 0xA010518: COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe 56 1695 [main] rxvt 3388 environ_init: 0xA010540: CVSROOT=cvs.research.canon.com.au:/u/archive 58 1753 [main] rxvt 3388 environ_init: 0xA010578: CVS_SERVER=/opt/bin/cvs 59 1812 [main] rxvt 3388 parse_options: binmode 131072 75 1887 [main] rxvt 3388 parse_options: returning [...] 32 11680 [main] rxvt 3388 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: conv_to_posix_path (x:\bin\script, keep-rel, no-add-slash) 78 11758 [main] rxvt 3388 normalize_win32_path: x:\bin\script = normalize_win32_path (x:\bin\script) 34 11792 [main] rxvt 3388 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: /cygdrive/x/bin/script = conv_to_posix_path (x:\bin\script) 32 11824 [main] rxvt 3388 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: conv_to_posix_path (\\samba\script, keep-rel, no-add-slash) 31 11855 [main] rxvt 3388 normalize_win32_path: \\samba\script = normalize_win32_path (\\samba\script) 32 11887 [main] rxvt 3388 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: //samba/script = conv_to_posix_path (\\samba\script) 32 11919 [main] rxvt 3388 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: conv_to_posix_path (C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin, keep-rel, no-add-slash) 32 11951 [main] rxvt 3388 normalize_win32_path: C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin = normalize_win32_path (C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin) 32 11983 [main] rxvt 3388 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: /usr/X11R6/bin = conv_to_posix_path (C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin) 88 12071 [main] rxvt 3388 win_env::add_cache: posix /usr/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/x/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/nsr/bin:/cygdrive/x/bin:/cygdrive/x/bin/script://samba/script:/usr/X11R6/bin 34 12105 [main] rxvt 3388 win_env::add_cache: native PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;C:\cygwin\bin;x:\bin;c:\WINDOWS\system32;c:\WINDOWS;c:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;c:\Program Files\nsr\bin;x:\bin;x:\bin\script;\\samba\script;C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin 33 12138 [main] rxvt 3388 posify: env var converted to PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/x/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/nsr/bin:/cygdrive/x/bin:/cygdrive/x/bin/script://samba/script:/usr/X11R6/bin 59 12197 [main] rxvt 3388 environ_init: 0xA010950: PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/x/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/nsr/bin:/cygdrive/x/bin:/cygdrive/x/bin/script://samba/script:/usr/X11R6/bin 121 12318 [main] rxvt 3388 environ_init: 0xA010890: PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH [...] luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
