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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de
Subject: Re: bin/683: cron(8)
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>Question for you:

>	Why the h*** do you care that cron runs a shell?  What does
>	the shell do that is so horrid that you want to break cron?

$ time sh -c "/bin/echo '/bin/sh is fat and slow'"
/bin/sh is fat and slow
       0.59 real       0.23 user       0.30 sys
$ time /bin/echo '/bin/sh is fat and slow'
/bin/sh is fat and slow
       0.22 real       0.11 user       0.07 sys

Bruce