From: Piotr Karbowski <jabberuser@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: "Once-a-day" long delay before startup
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:05:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E4E274B.6000400@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <110818205236.ZM20722@torch.brasslantern.com>
On 19.08.2011 05:52, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Aug 19, 12:08am, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
> }
> } +compaudit:90> (( UID == EUID ))
> }
> } after that it take about 7-8s of nothing and then:
> }
> } +compaudit:91> getent group slashbeast
>
> The compaudit script wants to check that you haven't allowed someone
> else to feed autoloadable functions to your shell, which would be a
> large security risk.
>
> The getent call is used to read the system's groups database for the
> groups of your login user, so that the shell can then check whether
> other persons in that group might have write access to your fpath.
> (There is an assumption that getent is in /usr/bin, so if it's not
> there the check relies on the local /etc/group file.)
>
> If you're in an environment (such as, say, a university or a large
> corporation) where the groups database is networked and may contain
> hundreds or even thousands of entries, that "getent" call can take a
> very long time.
>
> After one reading, though, your system has cached the database and
> until the cache expires or is flushed subsequent calls to "getent"
> return almost instantly.
>
> You can skip this security check by using "compinit -u" when you
> load the completion system.
>
Thats is not the case I think. I have had did what gi1241 did to test it
and even without this 'gentent' I am getting this lag just before
dircolors is executed.
% ZDOTDIR=/tmp zsh -xd 2>&1 | tee /tmp/zsh.log
+/tmp/.zshrc:1> print -P 'zsh-4.3.12 (1.5346)'
zsh-4.3.12 (1.5346)
+/tmp/.zshrc:2> which dircolors
### lag starts here.
/usr/bin/dircolors
-- Piotr.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-19 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-14 14:57 gi1242+zsh
2011-08-14 15:36 ` Vincent Lefevre
2011-08-14 17:32 ` Vincent Lefevre
2011-08-14 18:06 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-08-18 22:08 ` Piotr Karbowski
2011-08-19 2:03 ` gi1242+zsh
2011-08-19 4:05 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-08-19 9:08 ` Vincent Lefevre
2011-08-19 17:58 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-08-20 0:47 ` gi1242+zsh
2011-08-20 7:01 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-08-19 3:52 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-08-19 8:36 ` Vincent Lefevre
2011-08-19 9:05 ` Piotr Karbowski [this message]
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