Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/02/21/06:23:17
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Daniel Barker wrote:
> The BASH script ran slowly and caused many
> page faults, presumably since it involves many program launches
What do you mean ``presumably''? Why should it crash because of
involving ``many program launches''? Isn't this already a sign of a
clear trouble?
> BASH, EXPR and TRUE all were DJGPP ports of GNU programs, recently
> downloaded.
Correction: `true' is not a program, it's a shell script. So invoking
`true' does NOT involve running a subsidiary program.
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