We've had problems with slow Cygwin commands, so we were able to capture a stack trace when the 'cp' program taking a long time to complete, and we noticed in the stack trace that the last thing cygwin1.dll does is calls assert. What might that suggest? And are there any situations that would cause an error on initialization? Stack Trace: Child cmd.exe -> cp.exe -> cmd.exe -> cp.exe: ntoskrnl.exe!KeSynchronizeExecution+0x5a36 ntoskrnl.exe!KeWaitForMutexObject+0x1c27 ntoskrnl.exe!KeWaitForMutexObject+0x1799 ntoskrnl.exe!KeWaitForMutexObject+0x520 ntoskrnl.exe!IoQueueWorkItemEx+0x1a4 ntoskrnl.exe!RtlInitializeSid+0x40d5 ntoskrnl.exe!FsRtlRegisterFltMgrCalls+0x84225 ntoskrnl.exe!SeSetSecurityDescriptorInfo+0x269e ntoskrnl.exe!SeSetSecurityDescriptorInfo+0x2476 ntoskrnl.exe!SeSetSecurityDescriptorInfo+0x2f05 ntoskrnl.exe!SeSetSecurityDescriptorInfo+0x2af8 ntoskrnl.exe!setjmpex+0x7925 ntdll.dll!ZwQueryObject+0x14 cygwin1.dll!dlfork+0xa0 cygwin1.dll!dlfork+0x24d3 cygwin1.dll!dlfork+0x2a9f cygwin1.dll!cygwin_dll_init+0x38f cygwin1.dll!_assert+0x41f6 cygwin1.dll!_assert+0x42a4