Re: Using the history expansion modifier 'a' results in excessive lstat calls

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>]

On 20 May 2022 at 11:08 Stefan Radziuk <sradziuk@pdtpartners.com> wrote:
> I have looked through some threads in the mailing list to find out why
> zgetdir > is being used over getcwd in the first place. It seems it was
> implemented this way in the 1990s to work around a bug in some implementations
> of getcwd, which should not be a concern on modern systems. 
> 
> I was wondering if zgetdir is still the right way to do this? Are there
> use cases where it is preferred over getcwd? Maybe zgetcwd could simply
> use getcwd primarily (i.e. not as fallback), or perhaps USE_GETCWD could
> be enabled by default (currently it is only enabled on QNX builds).

The best bet would probably be to try that by default once we're sure the
release is out of the way --- as you say there's a good chance that's the
right way to go now and I don't think we're going to find out the problems
any other way.

pws