Probably because it tries to get your hostname. At any rate you should see why if you let strace run a little bit more.
In previous versions Cygwin was using GetComputerName. Not it uses gethostname, loading wsock. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/