Just to connect the dots, does your BASH prompt contain "\h" or "\H"? The default PS1 established in "/etc/profile" and "/etc/profile.default" contain "\h" and hence trigger a host name look up per Pierre's message.
Randall Schulz
At 15:02 2003-03-03, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
Probably because it tries to get your hostname. At any rate you should see why if you let strace run a little bit more.
In previous versions Cygwin was using GetComputerName. Not it uses gethostname, loading wsock.
Pierre
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