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RE: Slowness when setting PS1 variable???
- From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 10:13:33 -0800
- Subject: RE: Slowness when setting PS1 variable???
Thomas,
The key here is that back-quotes or $( command ) uses a pipe to get the
output of the command.
Do you run a CPU-soaking background program such as SETI@home, Folding@home
(the protein folding experiment) or fightAIDS@home (the AIDS drug discovery
program)?
If so, you're seeing the result of the changes to how Cygin accesses pipes
in 1.3.18.
I hope these changes will be perfected or backed out, since I don't want to
give up running background CPU utilization software and in the long run I
cannot afford to stop updating Cygwin (of course).
Randall Schulz
At 06:35 2003-01-08, Thomas Chadwick wrote:
Update. I've further observed that while running whoami at the
command-line returns a result immediately, running it inside a pair of
back-tics "`" shows the blocking behavior. For instance, if I do this:
$ whoami
I get a result immediately.
However, if I do this:
$ echo `whoami`
It takes a good 5-10 seconds to print a value and return the prompt.
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