From: Lars Christensen Date: 2008-12-17T17:57:20+09:00 Subject: Re: Speed up require on win32 On Dec 17, 4:26 am, Alex 2k8 wrote: > Hi, Robert > > > ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i386-cygwin] > > Probably cygwin is not calling the same OS functions. > > > Maybe it's in your environment?  Do you somehow require "rubygems"? > > I tested on Windows Server 2003. And I tryed with/without rubygems - > same results. I see the same issue here, with MSVC builds. However, with MingW builds, i don't get the problem. The is_socket function you mention has been changed significantly in 1.9.1 anyway.