Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 10:11:47 -0400
Message-Id: <199607211411.KAA30567@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj>
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960721165551.6686B-100000@is> (message from Eli
	Zaretskii on Sun, 21 Jul 1996 17:04:33 +0200 (IST))
Subject: Re: find41b slow behaviour.....


> be too expensive, should it?  If it is, maybe we should make `setenv' and
> `putenv' flip the LFN bit. 

This would be acceptable.  Searching the environment space each time
you wanted to call open, stat, rename, unlink, readdir, etc sounds
like a waste.

As a general case, perhaps we could have an "environment modified"
counter, like the counter we use for detecting startup conditions?  I
expect there may be other cases like this, where an arbitrary function
needs to know when an environment variable might have changed ($TZ?).