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Re: "hostname" takes 3.5 seconds


On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 04:37:07PM +0000, Niall dot Smart at friendsfirst dot ie wrote:
> Anyone know why calling hostname takes 3.5 seconds?
> 
> Most of the time seems to be spent in cygwin_gethostname and ExitProcess:
> 
>    28   28924 [main] hostname 268 wsock_init: lpVendorInfo 0
> 1017292 1046216 [main] hostname 268 cygwin_gethostname: name ffwd10657

Hmm, doesn't happen for me.  If you look into the source code you'll find
that Cygwin isn't doing costly stuff:  It just calls gethostname() from
WinSock.  Something's not quite correct with your settings I guess.

Corinna

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