Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com Path: not-for-mail From: Andrew Markebo Subject: Re: Slowness when setting PS1 variable??? Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 17:09:42 +0100 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/20.7 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VW/1daDvTzlotS8G8KGFc8IiC0A= | $ 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. Isn't it something like echo `whoami` starts a new shell, that loads the .profile (or whichever start-file) that takes 5-10 seconds to load? And well.. if it is that whoami that due to some weird reason takes the extra time.. but.. :-) Hmm are there anything networked in the path, it picks data/files from somewhere else? /Andy -- The eye of the beholder rests on the beauty! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/