problems w/ cygwin-1.1.2

Mon Jul 3 16:11:00 GMT 2000

> Hi,
> I am trying to use cygwin-1.1.2 on NT SP3. I went
> thru the installation process (via setup etc). The
> installation process goes thru without any problems.
> However, when I try to use any program from the bin
> dir (even ls) it takes an awfully long time to finish.
> Even "ls" seems to take atleast a few seconds (upto 10
> secs at times) to finish. Similar times are observed
> w/ running bash. It seems that the time delay is quite
> independent of the program being run -- something that
> makes me suspect the cygwin.dll. Needless to say, this
> has prevented me from using this version. I had
> experienced similar problems w/ cygwin-1.1.1. I have
> found that my 1.5 yr old Cywgin-B20 works "normally".
>>> (Please note that I DON'T have two versions of cygwin
> on my computer -- I went thru the painful process of
> installing the new version (over the modem), only to
> uninstall it and install my old version back)
>> Could anyone please shed light on this? It will be
> quite good to move to the latest cygwin release.

Try the uname -a command and check that it says 1.1.2 in the version part. When I
had this problem I discovered that the setup had not copied the new cygwin1.dll
file to the right place!
Regards,
Tony.
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