Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:49:50 -0500 From: Craig Boston <craig@tobuj.gank.org> To: diz@linuxpowered.com, vd@datamax.bg, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [patch] rc.d/tmp (silly mkdir usage) Message-ID: <20050802174949.GB47508@nowhere> In-Reply-To: <20050802174445.GA47508@nowhere> References: <51934.68.95.232.238.1122957425.squirrel@68.95.232.238> <20050802062937.GA31485@sinanica.bg.datamax> <1711.68.95.232.238.1123001239.squirrel@68.95.232.238> <20050802174445.GA47508@nowhere>
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Sigh, that's what I get for editing before I finish writing. On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:44:45PM -0500, Craig Boston wrote: > It's a very remote chance yes, but why ...but why take that chance when mkdir works perfectly fine? Chances are mkdir will be used at some point during the rc.d startup anyway, so forking a process for an executable in the cache (or bringing it into the cache so it can be used later) is a negligible performance loss, especially when it only happens once. Craig
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