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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ENV file in ksh: is this smart? legal?
Message-ID: <9482@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 4 Sep 89 04:06:51 GMT
References: <716@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <10890@smoke.BRL.MIL> <526@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu> <10920@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
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In article <10920@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>The overhead of
>sourcing $ENV as opposed to carrying the LARGE amount of extra environment
>around with every process seems to be a good trade-off.

Is this still true if you have fork() with copy-on-write?

Les Mikesell