On Apr 14 04:37, Mayank Patke wrote: > I decided to uninstall Cygwin because, frankly, I don't use it that > much and because the find_fast_cwd warning in the output of certain > commands has been interfering with other programs which don't expect > the warning in the output.
The problem is this: We don't have a clue under what circumstances this message is printed. We know *why* it's printed, but none of the core maintainers and none of the package maintainers seem to have a system which suffers from this problem. I already wrote two mails on this to this list. I'm running Windows 8.1 32 and 64 bit, but on my machines, the find_fast_cwd warning is not printed, so the find_fast_cwd mechanism works as expected. To get rid of this message, either I have to know how to reproduce it, or somebody with this problem would have to debug a teeny little bit of assembler code inside the Windows ntdll.dll file. To be able to reproduce it, I would need somebody who can reproduce the problem and being prepared to experiment a bit. It *seems* the problem is introduced by some Windows update package which is not installed by Windows Update by default. If we can find out which package this is, I could debug this and get rid of the message. But, alas, nobody has offered to help so far. > However, if I run commands like "ls" and "make" (included by > other collections, such as MinGW), I continue to get the find_fast_cwd > warning. In your MingW environment, you're probably using the tools from MSYS2. MSYS2 is just a copy of Cygwin with a few tweaks for easier integration with a native MingW toolchain. MSYS2 is using the find_fast_cwd code as well, so you're getting the same warning. > What do I need to do in order to prevent this message from showing up > again? (Is there some remnant of Cygwin that I still need to remove?) The Cygwin remnant is probably MSYS2. Other than that, if somebody would take a heart trying to find out what introduced the problem on his or her machine, we could eventually get rid of it completely. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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