From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 4 15:25:58 2001 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 15:25:56 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from puck.firepipe.net (poynting.physics.purdue.edu [128.210.146.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E425A37B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:25:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from argon.firepipe.net (pm013-044.dialup.bignet.net [64.79.82.108]) by puck.firepipe.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6E6E1A0A; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 18:25:54 -0500 (EST) Received: by argon.firepipe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C9FCD19E0; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 18:25:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 18:25:46 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Warner Losh Cc: Will Andrews , Garrett Wollman , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/apply apply.c Message-ID: <20010104182546.T86630@argon.firepipe.net> Reply-To: Will Andrews Mail-Followup-To: Will Andrews , Warner Losh , Garrett Wollman , current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010104172004.P86630@argon.firepipe.net> <200101041905.f04J5ou82617@freefall.freebsd.org> <200101041909.OAA61522@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20010104172004.P86630@argon.firepipe.net> <200101042320.f04NKm147924@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101042320.f04NKm147924@harmony.village.org>; from imp@bsdimp.com on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:20:48PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: will@argon.firepipe.net Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:20:48PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > First off, we do still have a significant part of the user base that > is using older, slower machines. Many of them run embedded systems, > some of which use apply(1). I have a big problem with this argument > since it is doesn't understand the wide range of environments that > FreeBSD runs in and runs very well in. I know we do, but I (as you say in the your next paragraph) was trying to point out that the extra checking wasn't likely to slow things down much, and I think it's worth the extra cycles. Please don't get me wrong; if I thought it was gratuitous, I wouldn't have done that in the first place. > I'm still not sure about the shell environment actually buying > anything, but I could see how it might help. I'm not understanding what you're saying here. -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message