From: zeil AT cs DOT odu DOT edu (Steven J. Zeil)
Subject: Re: bash: startup time
20 Mar 1998 14:51:08 -0800
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To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com>
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On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Steven J. Zeil wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> 
> > Something else to try is to "mount -b c:\\ /c".  
> 
> 
> That did the trick.  Thanks.
> 
> I notice that, after having done this, my $path is
> translated using /c instead of /  (e.g., /c/WINDOWS instead of /WINDOWS).
> Certainly that won't hurt anything, but I wonder if it was something in
> the code that translates "inherited" environment variables that was taking
> so long.
> 
> Steve Zeil
> 
> 

Don't you just hate it when you post something and then realize
immediately afterwards that it was utter nonsense?

To answer my own question, no,  it probably isn't the $path and other
environment variable translation that was taking the time, as that would
have had to been done no matter what directory bash was launched from.

Steve Zeil

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