Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:32:02 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2 support for distribution patches) Message-ID: <200001242232.RAA00485@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000123194647.A5472@hub.freebsd.org> References: <86duop$2n8d$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> <200001230926.KAA81850@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <20000123194647.A5472@hub.freebsd.org>
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<<On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 19:46:47 -0800, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> said: > Am I the only one that uses UNIX as a multitasking OS? > nice the bzip2 process by 20 and background it. Geez. Perhaps you're the only one who compresses files just for the hell of it. Most people normally compress files to meet an immediate need, and actually care how long it takes since whatever they're doing is blocked until the compression completes. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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