Running "ls /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" takes 5 to 10 seconds on my NT build machine. Using gdb to step through it, the culprit is the GetSecurityInfo() call in get_nt_object_attribute().
A google search shows up the following, a bug in GetSecurityInfo() in Windows that looks like it might be the problem:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaskdr/html/drgui47.asp
It is also interesting that there is a known problem with GetSecurityInfo() failing in NT SP4 when a registry key is passed to the function:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q217075
Their workaround involves the use of RegGetKeySecurity(), so perhaps this is what should be used for registry keys instead of GetSecurityInfo(). I'll see if I can come up with a patch. -- Joe Buehler
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