On May 8 18:38, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > How did you do that? The ACLs in the Cygwin default dirs are supposed > > to contain only three ACEs, one for the installing user, one for the > > local admin group, and one for everyone. At least that's how setup.exe > > installs them. > > These are inherited from the settings in C:\, AFAIK (the list is > extracted from the output of icacls for each file in /usr/bin). I have > another test installation that may differ in minor details since it > hasn't been in use for many years, but in principle the output of icacls > looks the same for both. I can remove the test installation and install > it completely fresh if there's hope to get this problem resolved.
No idea if that helps, actually I doubt it. I was just wondering since this is not how setup creates the permissions. > > Btw., my machine and my account are domain members as well. Obviously > > all entries in /usr/bin have an Everyone ACE. My ls -l takes only about > > 1.2 secs with > 2200 entries in /usr/bin. > > Running ls is considerably faster on my machine as well (but probably > not under 3 seconds, that machine has a slow disk and that it is almost > full doesn't really help, even with regular defragmentation). One > application that shows the behviour I'm talking(*) about is pod2html, > and it finishes in almost no time when I simply remove "bin" from the > podpath argument. I don't know how to use pod2html. Please send a simple usage example which works out of the box, so that I can see if I can reproduce this behaviour. > If it makes a difference, I am running this as > administrator under Win7 Pro/32 (but presumably the same or a very Metoo, with UAC enabled. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple