Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 19:30:30 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is root's search path special? Message-ID: <20011118193030.A1220@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <029301c16f52$bf8e9b00$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <200111170949.fAH9nic21507@lv.raad.tartu.ee> <029301c16f52$bf8e9b00$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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No, it is not so very obvious is it .. lol. The hashing is done to speed up finding the file in question. What is slightly odd is that as far as I know nobody has considered that the shell(s) could optionally revert to normal path seaching if a hashed filepath is not found. -- Regards Cliff On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:29:25AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Thanks. Such a requirement would not have occurred to me spontaneously. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> > To: <y3k@gti.net>; <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; "Anthony Atkielski" > <anthony@atkielski.com> > Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 10:48 > Subject: Re: Is root's search path special? > > > > Hi Anthony! > > > > On 17 Nov 01 at 9:32 you wrote: > > > > > > > What does "rehash" do? The man page is no help. > > > > >From 'man tcsh': > > > > rehash : > > > > Causes the internal hash table of the contents of the directories > > in the path variable to be recomputed. This is needed if new > > commands are added to directories in path while you are logged > > in. This should be necessary only if you add commands to one of > > your own directories, or if a systems programmer changes the > > contents of one of the system directories. Also flushes the > > cache of home directories built by tilde expansion. > > -- > > Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ > > * Coffee -- n., a person who is coughed upon. > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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