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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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