On Feb 13 08:31, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 11/02/2012 5:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>(\??\C:\cygwin\cygdrive,0x28BB68) > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > This looks suspicious. I assume you're suffering from SMB network > > scanning. > Turns out you were right after all. I have Z: mapped to a SMB share > that's only visible when I'm connected to the VPN it lives on; I > hadn't used it in a few months and it didn't show up in Explorer, > but it was on the list of drives returned by > GetLogicalDriveStrings(). Connecting the drive makes everything run > at normal speed, and disconnecting it makes the problem return a > short time later. > > Oddly, I've never observed the effect when running from an elevated > prompt -- I can reliably fire off 'stat /cygdrive' in a normal > prompt, open an elevated mintty, run the same command there, get the > results, and close the window, all well before the first stat > completes. > > So, three questions: > - why is the elevated prompt unaffected?
Because the elevated token is not connected to the drives of the non-elevated token by default. There's a registry key which allows to change that, but off the top of my head I don't know it. Search MSDN, this question comes up since the first Vista release candidates. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple