On Aug 14 22:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 14 17:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Aug 14 06:49, mku wrote: > > > I hope, not to follow a red herring again, but found some interesting. > > > > > > I did a fresh cygwin installation again but made an error not to copy my old > > > .bashrc and .bashrc-profile files. > > > Within .bashrc I defined an alias for ls (ls='ls --color=auto > > > --show-control-chars'). > > > I noticed, that the time lag has went away. After a "ls --color=auto", the > > > time lag appeared again. > > > Comparing the strace output with/without the color flag, I found that the > > > time lag at "cygheap_user::ontherange" has gone and it now appeared at a > > > ldap_bind [ldap_init] that was called in the context of a symbolic link to a > > > directory on a network share. The previous strace logs did not show a time > > > lag at this point, only at the cygheap_user entry. > > > > > > I deleted the "ln -s" entry and did not notice this big time lag any more > > > even with the color flag. > > > > > > I restored the "old" v2.2.0 version and cannot find the previous logged time > > > lag. > > > As no files within the cygwin directory structure has been modified, it > > > seems, that some registry information has been "healed" by the multiple > > > fresh installations. > > > > > > PS: To do a fresh install I did a "backup" by renaming the original cygwin > > > folder. The "restore" was done by renaming the fresh installed cygwin folder > > > and renaming the previous "backuped" folder back to cygwin. > > > > > > For me the issue is now closed. Thanks for your input. > > > > Thank you for this important point. That gives me an idea what > > happens and I guess this is something which needs fixing. These > > checks should also only happen if passwd/group in nsswitch.conf > > are set to "db". > > I just checked in a patch to address this issue, and I just created a > new developer snapshot for testing. > > Can you reproduce the situation by recreating the symlink and try again? > If you can reproduce it, can you give the latest Cygwin DLL from the > developer snapshot page https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ a try? The new 2.2.1-0.1 test release contains this fix as well. Please give it a try. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat