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Re: bash backtick operator very slow
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Neal Symms <nsymms at redwar dot us>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:48:15 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: bash backtick operator very slow
- References: <MCENKDNFJIGGLCDONNNHIECHCJAA.nsymms@redwar.us>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Neal Symms wrote:
> I've searched for anyone having similar problems, but can't find anything.
> Here's the gist:
>
> ~$ time hostname
> MY_HOSTNAME
> real 0m0.111s
> user 0m0.060s
> sys 0m0.040s
>
> ~$ time echo hello
> hello
> real 0m0.000s
> user 0m0.000s
> sys 0m0.000s
>
> ~$ time echo `hostname`
> MY_HOSTNAME
> real 0m6.175s
> user 0m0.060s
> sys 0m0.050s
>
> ..and that was a fast one. Usually it takes > 7 seconds. I'm running
> cygwin under Win2K in a domain environment. I don't have this problem when
> running the same exact setup on a non-domain machine. Anyone seen anything
> like this before?
Does <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00730.html> help?
> I have no network drives in my PATH. Bash version is 3.1-4, cygwin DLL
> version is 1.5.13. The sh shell has the same behavior. I don't have
> ash, but I suppose I could try that one too...
FYI, "/bin/sh" *is* ash.
Igor
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