From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 18 14:32:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from PALADIN.SRN.COM (paladin.srn.com [209.19.60.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E56637BAD2 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:32:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dave@srn.com) Received: from AARDVARK(DNS-NAME="AARDVARK.SRN.COM" [209.19.60.70] SMTP-FROM="dave@srn.com") by PALADIN.SRN.COM with SMTP id 00P6GN; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:22:22 -0800 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000218142929.00926a10@paladin.srn.com> X-Sender: wiard@paladin.srn.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:29:29 -0800 To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr From: David Wiard Subject: Re: alias's Cc: jimmy martin , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20000218145155.C4423@hades.hell.gr> References: <3.0.5.32.20000215150719.0095cae0@paladin.srn.com> <3.0.5.32.20000211143912.009715d0@paladin.srn.com> <20000211045849.3263.qmail@hotmail.com> <20000211045849.3263.qmail@hotmail.com> <20000212000440.A15261@hades.hell.gr> <3.0.5.32.20000211143912.009715d0@paladin.srn.com> <20000215203410.A13013@hades.hell.gr> <3.0.5.32.20000215150719.0095cae0@paladin.srn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Only for matters of efficiency one would care to note that one's path >contains duplicate directorye entries. A quick tour of the bin/c?sh >sources showed that both these shells use a hash to remember commands >that have been already executed; makes the PATH less and less important >as you continue using it. very interesting. i like that idea. the only possible hang up is when the hash table gets real big that's gotta soak up some memory, but these days, who cares. when you've got a machine running with 256 megs of memory, a shell's hash table isn't going to affect much, if anything. -- dave wiard (dave@srn.com) The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message