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Date:      Thu, 4 Jan 2001 18:25:46 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/apply apply.c
Message-ID:  <20010104182546.T86630@argon.firepipe.net>
In-Reply-To: <200101042320.f04NKm147924@harmony.village.org>; from imp@bsdimp.com on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:20:48PM -0700
References:  <20010104172004.P86630@argon.firepipe.net> <200101041905.f04J5ou82617@freefall.freebsd.org> <200101041909.OAA61522@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20010104172004.P86630@argon.firepipe.net> <200101042320.f04NKm147924@harmony.village.org>

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On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:20:48PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> First off, we do still have a significant part of the user base that
> is using older, slower machines.  Many of them run embedded systems,
> some of which use apply(1).  I have a big problem with this argument
> since it is doesn't understand the wide range of environments that
> FreeBSD runs in and runs very well in.

I know we do, but I (as you say in the your next paragraph) was trying
to point out that the extra checking wasn't likely to slow things down
much, and I think it's worth the extra cycles.

Please don't get me wrong; if I thought it was gratuitous, I wouldn't
have done that in the first place.

> I'm still not sure about the shell environment actually buying
> anything, but I could see how it might help.

I'm not understanding what you're saying here.

-- 
wca


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