Re: emacs-x11 takes 30-40 sec to open after upgrading to cygwin-1.7

[Markus Hoenicka <markus dot hoenicka at mhoenicka dot de>]

Dan Tsafrir <dants@cs.technion.ac.il> was heard to say:

> I wasn't able to strace emacs, but I am able to strace xclock (brining
> it up, which when strace-ing takes several long minutes on my netbook,
> and then immediately killing it).

Neither was I. I always get this error (the error number is variable though):

strace: error creating process emacs, (error 2)

I've had a look at your strace log. I've noticed the same block of  
statements which seems to be repeated over and over again (see my  
previous post).  Did you watch the strace output on the console in  
real time to verify that this is where the process spends most of its  
time?

 3139 16066368 [main] xclock 5708 readv: readv (4, 0x22A6D4, 1)  
blocking, sigcatchers 0
 1765 16068133 [main] xclock 5708 readv: no need to call ready_for_read
 1487 16069620 [main] xclock 5708 fhandler_base::read: returning  
1024, binary mode
 1531 16071151 [main] xclock 5708 readv: 1024 = readv (4, 0x22A6D4,  
1), errno 2

This is where I have seen xterm to spend most of its time. In your  
log, this block of statements appears to be repeated several times for  
each font it checks in /etc/fonts. This would explain why it is  
related somehow to fonts in your case.

regards,
Markus

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