Hello Brian, The TZ environment variable is not defined in my system. I've tried setting TZ=CST-8, then reloading cygwin, but it still does not show any improvement. Any more hints?
Thanks! Best Regards, Carlo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 6:52 PM Subject: Re: ls.exe slow down in cygwin 1.3.13 (a followup from the "ls problem" thread last november 2002) > Carlo Florendo wrote: > > > I've tried stracing the output of "ls -l" and I've attached the output of strace > > too. > > An observation on the output of strace is that the delay starts when line 442 is > > printed. > > > > Line 442 of the strace output is: > > > > 104 1970355 [main] ls 2012 _open: -1 = open (/usr/local/etc/zoneinfo/posixrules, > > 0x10000) > > > > I'm wondering what this zoneinfo/posixrules is. The file does not exist in my > > installation. > > One of the time library functions (i.e. ctime() or localtime() or > strftime(), etc) apparently looks for those files to determine time zone > information. Mine does it too, but it doesn't take anywhere near as > long. > > It looks like you have $TZ set to CST-8, just for kicks why not try > "unset TZ; ls -l" just to see if it makes any difference at all. > > Brian > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
