"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" writes: > > FAQ entry > > Why is Cygwin suddenly so slow? > http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC32 > > is a good hint. Focus on the fact that network shares (or drives) in the > path are an issue, not necessarily the recent change that makes the now > obsolete //X drive syntax equivalent to a network path. While this may be > your problem, references to network directories in your path is a timeless > issue that can account for the behavior you describe. There are multiple > posts about this in the mail archives, although they are likely to be > buried fairly far back in the archives and may be difficult to unearth > if you don't happen to hit a keyword used in those messages. ;-)
I don't think the //X drive syntax is the problem here. This is a new installation, so I can't compare to previous versions of the Cygwin DLL, but the %PATH% of the SYSTEM account doesn't contain any network drives: C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Symantec\pcAnywhere\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Network Associates\VirusScan Engine\4.0.xx\;C:\cygwin\bin -Scott -- Scott Atwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key fingerprint: 2852 FAE0 B0BB FE52 7002 1019 4D48 78B3 6FF0 A89F -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
