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From: Chris Siebenmann <cks>
To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca (rc Shell)
Subject: Re: non login "rc" needs customized environment
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 21:16:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <02Feb26.211609edt.75678@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Feb 2002 20:46:23 EST." <20020227014623.10430.qmail@merton.aus.deuba.com>

| It seems to me the default is backwards. Due to rc being invoked from
| various place over which you may not have control (and hence can't add
| the -l flag), rc should by default read .rcrc (or something). It is easy
| to avoid reading it by adding a test to the first line, eg. (using the
| level count variable someone suggested):

 Consulting .rcrc for every new shell requires reading and parsing all
of it on every semi-interactive subshell. (The same is true for any
other file rc would be looking at, of course.)

 I spawn a lot of copies of rc over the course of my day. I'm not
really enthused about adding this overhead (and this dependancy on
$home responding right now) to them.

 This is a long way to go just because rsh (and ssh) have problems
that can easily be fixed via wrappers.

	- cks


  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-27  2:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-15  4:11 Byron Rakitzis
2002-02-15 14:04 ` Tim Goodwin
2002-02-27  1:46   ` callum.gibson
2002-02-27  2:16     ` Chris Siebenmann [this message]
2002-02-27 13:32       ` Carlo Strozzi
2002-02-27 13:29   ` Carlo Strozzi
2002-02-27 22:24     ` Matt H
2002-02-27  6:13 ` Derek Fawcus
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-27  6:29 Byron Rakitzis
2002-02-27  6:26 Russ Cox
2002-02-27  0:52 Byron Rakitzis
2002-02-14 17:44 Byron Rakitzis
2002-02-15  0:18 ` Dave Mason
2002-02-15  3:21 ` Scott Schwartz
2002-02-14 13:35 Smarasderagd
2002-02-15  0:37 ` Greg A. Woods
     [not found] <chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu>
2002-02-13 20:36 ` Chet Ramey
2002-02-14  2:16   ` Scott Schwartz
2002-02-14 23:35     ` Markus Friedl
2002-02-15  3:05       ` Scott Schwartz
2002-02-13 19:21 Peter Koch

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