On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 07:52:45PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 07:49:42PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >> >>> >> Please don't. Try doing this instead: >>> >> >>> >> c:\>strace -ostrace.out bash >>> >> shaffek>cd //explr_drivers5/reboot_results2 >>> >> reboot_results2 >>> >> shaffek>ls >>> >>> > Attached. >>> >>> Try turning off strict case checking. >> >>Pierre, would you mind elaborating on exactly what in that strace pointed >>you to strict case checking being the culprit? I've looked through it, >>but perhaps I missed something... Thanks. > >I don't know if Pierre picked up on something else (or maybe just looked >at the cygcheck output) but a clue was the fact that path_conv::check >kept inspecting components of the path even after a valid path was >detected. I was working my way there when I wisely decided to check the >mailing list and saw Pierre's insight. It's supposed to stop looking at >the path once it finds a valid path, except in the case of non-relaxed >case checking, i.e., this is one of a few slowdowns in the case checking >code.
Btw, this should be fixed in the next snapshot. cgf -- 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/