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Re: Slowness when setting PS1 variable???
- From: "Paul T. Karch" <pkarch at stargate dot net>
- To: "Cygwin General Mail List" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 15:16:18 -0500
- Subject: Re: Slowness when setting PS1 variable???
- References: <F6wUUt9QrAo6hgb7IP20000c22e@hotmail.com>
I have a Pentium III 500 MHz 256 M w/ Windows 98 2nd Ed.
I downloaded and installed Cygwin about 2 days ago.
I tried your test with whoami and I could not discern
any time difference between the two "methods" of invoking
whoami. Just a bit of information FWIW.
Paul T. Karch
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Chadwick" <j_tetazoo@hotmail.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 9:35 AM
Subject: RE: Slowness when setting PS1 variable???
> Update. I've further observed that while running whoami at the
command-line
> returns a result immediately, running it inside a pair of back-tics "`"
> shows the blocking behavior. For instance, if I do this:
>
> $ whoami
>
> I get a result immediately.
>
> However, if I do this:
>
> $ echo `whoami`
>
> It takes a good 5-10 seconds to print a value and return the prompt.
>
>
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