Re: zsh portable script

[Atom Smasher <atom@smasher.org>]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Atom Smasher wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
>
>> Are permissions the reason you suggest running it under cron? 
>> Otherwise, why not just regenerate in precmd()?
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>
> now i remember why i'm running under cron, instead of in precmd... 
> http://smasher.org/tmp/zsh-bsd-sysctl-slow.png
>
> freebsd's sysctl is way too slow to invoke every time i draw a prompt. 
> linux's /sys/ and /proc/ are reasonably fast, but i already had a cron 
> job written for bsd, and very minor changes were needed to make it work 
> with linux.
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it was just pointed out on freebsd-hackers list that this may not be a 
freebsd v linux issue... it may be the hardware. eventually i'll have to 
reboot this freebsd laptop, and when i do i'll check it out with an ubuntu 
CD. if that also runs slow, then the battery script will have to stay 
separate from the zshrc... unless some other changes are made...?


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