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

[Matthias Andree]

Am 05.06.26 um 03:52 schrieb Annihilannic via Cygwin:
> 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):
>
> 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 


Are you using some kind of remote user database, Active Directory or 
something, and your computer is a domain member? That may be... slow. 
And since ls defaults to sorted output, it will look up user and group 
details for all your 1202 files in Downloads before giving you the list.