Hi, I've been using cygwin for a while now and most of the time I've been able to figure out what's going on by RTFMing or searching, but this one I can't seem to figure out.
Under certain circumstances, messages from programs that are sent to stderr are displayed on the console very slowly. It looks like an emulation of a 1200 baud modem, no joke. It does not happen all the time, for example "ls -l 1>&2" works fine at normal speed. It only seems to happen when the program writes an error message to stderr and the normal stdout is redirected to a file, or something along those lines. Two programs that always do it are curl and tidy. For example, if I run "curl http://127.5.5.5"; (some bogus IP addr) the error message "curl: (7) Connect failed" gets printed in 1200 baud modem speed. Or, if I run "curl -o /dev/null http://www.google.com"; then curl's little progress indicator display gets printed very slowly. If I run "tidy -o somefile somefile.html" then tidy's messages (info, warning, error, etc) are printed very slowly. I've tried all sorts of perl one-liners to try and duplicate this, but I just can't manufacture a setting where it does it. Above cases are about the only reproducable ones I can come up with, but I know there are others. I don't think it has anything to do in particular with curl or tidy. I'm running under Win2k SP3, cygwin.dll version 1.3.22-1, CYGWIN="ntea tty ntsec" (the partition is NTFS), and a bunch of packages all of whatever the latest stable version is according to setup.exe. I use plain old bash as my shell, no rxvt or X Windows or anything. I don't recall when this started happening, but it wasn't always broken like this... maybe 3-4 months ago? Any ideas? Do any of the above listed commands have the same result on anyone else's system? Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
