Qt-5.15.18 doesn't work, cannot open file dialog.

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Annihilannic!

> On 05/06/2026 09:18, Mark Geisert via Cygwin wrote:
>> Thank you for the report and your STC supplied in another post. One
>> thing I have consistently noticed with 5.15.18 using other programs is
>> that populating the first open file dialog takes a very long time. It is
>> not hanging, but it sure looks like it. Maybe that's the case for you.

> Is that just a Qt thing, or Cygwin in general?  I've noticed this behaviour
> for quite some time (~/Downloads is on spinning disks in this example):

In this case, the disk may have been sleeping, on top of the fact Cygwin needs
to do some extra work to correctly reflect the -l states.

> Username@computer:~/Downloads
> $ time ls -l >/dev/null

> real    0m30.818s
> user    0m0.015s
> sys     0m0.109s

> Username@computer:~/Downloads
> $ time ls -l >/dev/null

> real    0m0.060s
> user    0m0.000s
> sys     0m0.046s

> Username@computer:~/Downloads
> $ ls -l | wc -l
> 1202

> Regards,
> Scott



-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, June 5, 2026 08:43:33

Sorry for my terrible english...