Stephen Vance <steve at vance.com> wrote:
Those and all the other advantages that Unix-like shells have over the
Windows command shells, like the standard availability of all Unix-ish
tools. It's only disadvantage is that the '//' at the beginning of depot
and client paths triggers Cygwin's tendency to go into long network search
delays unless you quote them.
There's probably, actually, 2 different delays in there - one to decide if
"depot" is really a hostname and another that seems to be inherent in whatever
it's doing to access files (that magnifies runtime hugely over remote file
systems). I've tried doing a simple 'ls' of a remotely mounted (using 'net
use') file system (via an ISDN Internet connection). I keep telling myself
that it might be faster to fly to the remote site to do the 'ls' command than
it is to wait for it to finish...
Aside from that, I'd love to use the Cygwin software...but having to be
careful where I type 'ls' (or 'cp' or whatever) when I've got remote mounts is
a real pain.
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