Greetings, Annihilannic! > On 05/06/2026 09:18, Mark Geisert via Cygwin wrote: >> Thank you for the report and your STC supplied in another post. One >> thing I have consistently noticed with 5.15.18 using other programs is >> that populating the first open file dialog takes a very long time. It is >> not hanging, but it sure looks like it. Maybe that's the case for you.
> Is that just a Qt thing, or Cygwin in general? I've noticed this behaviour > for quite some time (~/Downloads is on spinning disks in this example): In this case, the disk may have been sleeping, on top of the fact Cygwin needs to do some extra work to correctly reflect the -l states. > Username@computer:~/Downloads > $ time ls -l >/dev/null > real 0m30.818s > user 0m0.015s > sys 0m0.109s > Username@computer:~/Downloads > $ time ls -l >/dev/null > real 0m0.060s > user 0m0.000s > sys 0m0.046s > Username@computer:~/Downloads > $ ls -l | wc -l > 1202 > Regards, > Scott -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Friday, June 5, 2026 08:43:33 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
