Getting tired of loading disks, I structured a local mirror of the
Debian directory structure and tried running Cygwin
dpkg-scanpackages. I expected it to take a while, so I wasn't
surprised - I just went and make some more coffee. But after 20
minutes I suspected something was wrong and fired up ProcessExplorer.
Under my console bash I discovered:
+perl (OK, dpkg-scanpackeages is a big perl script I guess)
++dpkg-deb
++rm.exe <==== getting 98% of the CPU time and not making any
progress. Watching the handles display, I see an open handle on what
must be the first *.deb file found so I'm pretty sure of the "no
progress -= stuck!" diagnosis.
Killed it all, ran my scan with the identical sh script in Debian
proper. It did, indeed, take a bit of time but it completed without a
hitch and /bin/rm never stayed long enough for me to see it: perl got
about 3 sec. CPU, dpkg-deb about 2, find about 2, everything else less
than 1.