[429] in SIPB bug reports
re: Fun flaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Mar 23 22:07:40 1989
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 89 22:08:31 EST
From: Mark W. Eichin <eichin@athena.MIT.EDU>
To: jik@athena.MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@athena.MIT.EDU
>Wonderful. Write a C program to do "setenv MANPATH
>/usr/sipb/man:$MANPATH." This is getting worse and worse....
As I said, *if* speed is an issue. If csh is smart, it could recognize
a shell script and just fork, but I think it still exec's a new csh to
run it in. execint an sh, well, sh is 22K, csh is 116K, but a small
program that frobs its environment should be under 4k... I only
brought it up because someone (on bug-sipb) complained about the
performance hit of running the shell script (as if reading the docs
wasn't already a performance hit :-)
>Stan says he uses it in LCS.
So, Stan, do you mount it and run over gateways, or do you have a copy
on LCS space? I am curious, after all, as to just who SIPB has as
users...
_Mark_
