From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] env walk
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 14:39:40 +0100
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> By the way, it's setting all the env's in your example that takes the
> time, not forking in rc.  Rc doesn't reread the /env's.  If you
> do an iostats on the example you'll see no opens of /env after
> setting the vars:

that's a bit spurious, i'm afraid, because rc opens #e directly so
iostats can't see those accesses.

given that rc does read all the environment variables when it starts
up, i think it's quite likely it's spending a fair amount of time doing
so...

  rog.