Re: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive

2008-07-14 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
State University Detroit, Michigan, USA - Original Message - From: "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 13:50 Subject: Re: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive On Jul 14 13:16, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Lee Maschmeyer wrote: OK, so perhaps

Re: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive

2008-07-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 14 19:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 14 13:16, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > Lee Maschmeyer wrote: > >> Attached is the output of the command: > >> strace -o strace_ls.log ls 1.7-log.txt > >> I don't think it tells us anything we didn't know. Cygwin, down under the > >> hood, thinks

Re: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive

2008-07-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 14 13:16, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: To me this suggests that there could be a problem with getwinenv() but I can't say more than that at the moment. It's not in getwinenv afaics, but I don't know what the actual problem is so far. It has something to do wit

Re: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive

2008-07-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 14 13:16, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Lee Maschmeyer wrote: >>> OK, so perhaps your problem and the Windows path shown by 'cygcheck' are >>> two >>> different issues. >> My problem is _precisely_ the Windows path shown by cygcheck. Everything >> _except_ Cygwin (as shown by cygcheck) is c

Re: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive

2008-07-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Lee Maschmeyer wrote: OK, so perhaps your problem and the Windows path shown by 'cygcheck' are two different issues. My problem is _precisely_ the Windows path shown by cygcheck. Everything _except_ Cygwin (as shown by cygcheck) is correct as far as I can see. Actually, you showed me the pa

Re: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive

2008-07-14 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
OK, so perhaps your problem and the Windows path shown by 'cygcheck' are two different issues. My problem is _precisely_ the Windows path shown by cygcheck. Everything _except_ Cygwin (as shown by cygcheck) is correct as far as I can see. I'm back to not being sure why you're seeing accesse

Re: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive

2008-07-11 Thread Václav Haisman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Lee Maschmeyer wrote, On 11.7.2008 22:13: |> So $PATH in bash references '/cygdrive/a'? | | No, $PATH references c:/windows: | | $ echo $PATH | ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDOWS:/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem

Re: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive

2008-07-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Lee Maschmeyer wrote: So $PATH in bash references '/cygdrive/a'? No, $PATH references c:/windows: $ echo $PATH ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDOWS:/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/usr/bin:/usr/X11r6/bin:/e /Program Files/Executive Software/Diskeeper/:/usr

Re: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive

2008-07-11 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
So $PATH in bash references '/cygdrive/a'? No, $PATH references c:/windows: $ echo $PATH ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDOWS:/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/usr/bin:/usr/X11r6/bin:/e /Program Files/Executive Software/Diskeeper/:/usr/lib/lapack $ mount e:\

Re: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive

2008-07-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Lee Maschmeyer wrote: Larry Hall wrote: From what I can see, the fact that the path is referencing 'a:' is the problem. You fix that in Windows in the "System" applet in the "Control Panel". Nope, Control Panel shows the Path (sic) variable correctly pointing to c:\Windows etc. Besides, if

Re: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive

2008-07-11 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
Larry Hall wrote: From what I can see, the fact that the path is referencing 'a:' is the problem. You fix that in Windows in the "System" applet in the "Control Panel". Nope, Control Panel shows the Path (sic) variable correctly pointing to c:\Windows etc. Besides, if Windows was looking for

Re: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive

2008-07-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Lee Maschmeyer wrote: Hi folks, Following instructions on the list a couple days ago I installed Cygwin 1.7 on top of my fully updated 1.5 system by running: http://www.cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe Since then performance has been abysmal. The reason is that for every command I execute, Cygwin c