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From: Carlo Strozzi <carlos@scriptaworks.com>
To: rc Shell <rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>
Subject: Re: non login "rc" needs customized environment
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:32:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020227143223.I350@texne.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <02Feb26.211609edt.75678@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>; from cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu on Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:16:03PM -0500

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:16:03PM -0500, Chris Siebenmann wrote:
> 
>  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.

I use rc heavily for Web scripting, so it would be even more of
a problem. Please do not go that way.

carlo
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-27 20:18 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
2002-02-27 13:32       ` Carlo Strozzi [this message]
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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