When you say "true" ls.exe what do you mean? If your talking about the one that came with cygwin, stock ls, then it's going to use the cygwin1.dll.
I tried your "testcase" and did it so much my bash history is at 1039. All worked perfectly. I don't suppose you have some *large files* in your /tmp directoy do you? Perhaps over the 2GB limit? Elfyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Xiangjiang Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >No, I comment CYGWIN out, and problem persistant. > >I even tried to using "true" ls.exe without usin >cygwin.dll, >and CPU still kept growing when doing "ls -s" under >/tmp. > >I guess /tmp cannot be used at all. > >Any more hint? > >Thanks. > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. >http://mailplus.yahoo.com > >-- >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/ _____________________________________________________________ www.smokeJet.com - Free UK Internet Services _____________________________________________________________ Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get [EMAIL PROTECTED] w/No Ads, 6MB, POP & more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag -- 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/
