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Re: (EXT) Re: Using the history expansion modifier 'a' results in excessive lstat calls

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: (EXT) Re: Using the history expansion modifier 'a' results in excessive lstat calls
Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 11:33:15 +0100 (BST)
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> On 25 May 2022 at 11:22 Stefan Radziuk <sradziuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Will it be worth seeing what effects the following has?
> 
> This resolves the issue for me -- verified with strace. Thanks.
>
>  dnl CHECK FOR SYSTEMS REQUIRING GETCWD
> +dnl This is now turned on by default, as we expect modern getcwd
> +dnl implementations to work correctly.  Any exceptions should be added
> +dnl to the first case.  Currently there are none, hence it is forced
> +dnl not to match.

Unless anyone has strong views, I'll commit this --- hoping at the most
we'll be look at edge effects on older or rarer systems which we're not
going to track down any other way.

pws

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