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Re: Please test latest snapshot
On May 16 14:36, Eric Blake wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>
> >
> > We would like to release 1.5.17 soon.
> >
> > Please try the latest snapshot, 2005-May-13, from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> >
> > Additional to a couple of bugfixes there's also a new feature which needs a
> > bit of testing. You can now list servers in the machine's domain/workgroup
> > with
> >
> > $ ls //
>
> On my work machine, where there are at least 1600 machines on the network (a
> changing number, based on how many employees have their machines on), `ls -
> F //' takes an inordinate amount of time while stat'ing all of those machines
> (serves me right for having alias ls='ls --color=auto -F'). Also, I cannot get
> ctrl-C or `/bin/kill -s TERM' to interrupt the ls process while it is
> attempting to access each and every one of those machines; after more than 10
> minutes of waiting I gave up and used `/bin/kill -s KILL' to get that shell
> back, with less than half the network traversed.
Nice greetings from NetBIOS.
Corinna
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