> I have found that some external programs invoked from a shell take a > long time to return control to the shell on exit. For example, typing > 'hostname<enter>' at the command prompt displays a response within about > 1 second, but the prompt does not appear for another 3 seconds (on a > 1.6GHz P4).
The problem was caused by the Novell client (version 4.5). Upgrading to the latest version (4.9) made Cygwin much more responsive. Milton Woods. -- 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/
