Bash login slow after upgrade to cygwin 1.7

[Nahor]

  On 2010-08-20 7:50, Jeremy Ramer wrote:
> After upgrading from cygwin 1.5 to cygwin 1.7 starting a bash shell is
> much slower.  It usually takes around 4 seconds before I get a prompt.
>   On cygwin 1.5 it was only around 1 second.  I captured some logs from
> the startup using this process:
> - Open cmd shell
> cd C:\cygwin\bin
> bash --login -i -x 1>  C:\startlog.txt 2>&1
>
> The log is attached. I don't see anything strange except that it seems
> pretty long. The same process on cygwin 1.5 gives much less output. I
> can provide that log if needed.
> Any ideas?

It's the loading of all the bashcompletion scripts. Move the directory 
/etc/bash_completion.d away and you'll see it's a lot faster.



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