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To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sh cd.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Dec 1996 10:39:34 CST."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 18:23:30 -0800
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>On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, David Greenman wrote:
>
># >steve       96/12/22 21:31:49
># >
># >  Modified:    bin/sh    cd.c
># >  Log:
># >  Don't use _POSIX_PATH_MAX to limit the size of the path, instead
># >  use 'getcwd(NULL, 0)' just as pwd(1) does.
># 
>#    getcwd() is a rather expensive operation...are you sure you want to do
># this?
># 
>
>Considering the alternatives (and without actually doing any time
>studies), yes I think it ITRTD.  The alternatives (as I see

   Sorry, I had thought that you were calling getcwd() twice. Now that I have
the changes here, I see that my assumption was wrong. So nevermind...

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project