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Re: ls problem


David,

The odd thing is that the delay occurred on a file (in a directory) that, according to Carlo, do not exist. Nor do they exist on my system even though I have all of the Cygwin packages installed (including XFree86/Cygwin).

Why would a simple attempt to access a non-existent file trigger a nearly two-second delay in an anti-virus subsystem?


Does Windows have some kind of "auto-mount" capability for accessing remote file systems? If it did and it were somehow triggered by the attempt to access that directory it could explain the delay?

Could there be a Windows mount (not a Cygwin mount) active for that directory that refers to a network drive letter with an invalid server association? (Is that even possible?)

Carlo, you could try one of these commands:

mountvol 'F:\cygwin\usr\local\etc' /l
mountvol 'F:\cygwin\usr\local\etc\zoneinfo' /l
mountvol 'F:\cygwin\usr\local\etc\zoneinfo\posixrules' /l

to see if Windows has a mountvol association with the directories involved in the problem.


Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 05:08 2002-11-22, David Starks-Browning wrote:
Carlo,

Do you have any anti-virus software running? 'ls -l' has to open each file, and this typically triggers your AV software to scan it. Depending on your AV product, and how you have configured it, this might explain unusual delays.

If you do have AV software running, try repeating the tests with it disabled, and report back.

Thanks,
David

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