Greetings, Riedel,Till (TM)! > I traced down my problem with really slow man page views this:
> {{{ >>PATH="/usr/bin:/foo" strace man bar |grep 'foo/share' > }}} > I am getting this: > {{{ > 13 39756 [main] man 6688 normalize_posix_path: src /foo/share/man > 16 39772 [main] man 6688 normalize_posix_path: /foo/share/man = > normalize_posix_path (/foo/share/man) > 13 39785 [main] man 6688 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path: > conv_to_win32_path (/foo/share/man) > 12 39810 [main] man 6688 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path: src_path > /foo/share/man, dst C:\tools\cygwin\foo\share\man, flags 0x3000A, rc 0 > 16 39912 [main] man 6688 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path: > conv_to_win32_path (/foo/share) > 14 39942 [main] man 6688 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path: src_path > /foo/share, dst C:\tools\cygwin\foo\share, flags 0x3000A, rc 0 > }}} > If my PATH is the real one this goes on forever, and generates some > problems,like: You have lots of duplicated, obsolete and overlapping paths in your %PATH%. I suggest you start from some homecleaning. Not to mention strange ones, like "/". > {{{ >>time man bar > No manual entry for bar > real 0m23.650s > user 0m0.000s > sys 0m0.108s > hanging e.g. on > 20 2449004 [main] man 8124 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path: src_path > //share/man, dst \\share\man, flags 0x4022, rc 0 > }}} > VS. > {{{ >>PATH=/usr/bin/ bash -c "time man bar" > No manual entry for bar > real 0m0.082s > user 0m0.031s > sys 0m0.045s > }}} > Any ideas why man does look for "share" in the whole path? Tbh I haven't > looked at the man source code. Thx in advance! -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Sunday, June 12, 2016 13:47:12 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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