1.5.20-1: ls -F slowness

[Scott Roland]

I tracked down my problems with an ls -F on a network share taking a
very long time.

If I use cygwin version 1.5.19-4 from the time machine:
  ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2006/06/11/081007
then an ls -F operation takes a couple of seconds.

If I then upgrade to version 1.5.20-1 from the time machine:
  ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2006/07/02/093005
cygwin is the only package that gets updated, but now the same operation
takes a couple of minutes (over 100 times slower).

The slow ls -F also occurs with the latest release. A vanilla ls does
not take a long time.

I have attached a couple of lines from an strace of the ls -F on the
1.5.19-4 and 1.5.20-1 versions. There are a couple of differences in the
strace, but the slowdown can be seen on the following step, which takes
over 700 times as long:
  fhandler_base::set_flags: flags 0x110000, supplied_bin 0x10000

Does anyone have any insight on why things got dramatically slower with
version 1.5.20-1?

Thanks.
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