[2935] in testers
Re: global cshrc change suggestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Fields)
Mon Jun 17 22:16:24 1996
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 22:16:15 -0400
From: Craig Fields <cfields@MIT.EDU>
To: marc@MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU, ghudson@MIT.EDU
> With my patch, the path will be set twice in quick succession; unless
> the .path file ignores a substantial part of the $path, the expensive
> part of the first path set is cached, and will be cheap the next time.
I think Greg understands this ("multiple times... open to debate").
While it's difficult to imagine a situation where we would regret
making such a change, I'd rather not bet on it without a good reason;
the consequences would be fairly annoying.
I'm also having difficulty imagining how this change is a significant
feature and why we'd want to make it regardless. (In the only scenario
I can think of, our not making the change might cause one to add an
if ($?athena_path) line in the cshrc.mine.)
Craig
