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Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit


On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Adam Kessel <ajkessel@gmail.com> wrote:
>> specified in /etc/passwd) if it doesn't exist.  This assumes that HOME is
>> not set in the Windows environment.  Are you seeing something different?
>
> Yes. I just installed from scratch -- download setup.exe and specify a
> new directory for install; then installed only bash and its
> prerequisites. When I run the default cygwin.bat in the new directory,
> I get:
>
> bash-4.1$ pwd
> /usr/bin
> bash-4.1$ echo $HOME
> /home/avk
> bash-4.1$ cd
> bash: cd: /home/avk: No such file or directory

And in any event, if I then mkdir /home/avk, even in my fresh install,
cygwin is still extremely slow.

Adam

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