From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9fans Digest, Vol 98, Issue 15
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 16:51:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5D856DC9-BED3-4A10-9004-E90C56C49446@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FD28E5C.3020608@gmx.de>
On 2012-06-08, at 4:44 PM, Friedrich Psiorz wrote:
> I don't really understand how and why this is not the case though, but
> I'll try to find out by reading a few more manpages ...
rc caches environment variables. It saves a read(2) every time $foo is referenced. Whether that's a win these days is unknown and deserves a bit of research. Or maybe rc could grow a command that flushes the env cache.
--lyndon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-08 23:51 UTC|newest]
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2012-06-08 23:44 ` Friedrich Psiorz
2012-06-08 23:51 ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2012-06-09 0:15 ` erik quanstrom
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