On 3/17/14 10:19 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > Only the minor performance hit it would extract on every command lookup. > > > I don't understand, surely it only has a performance impact when a hashed > file or a directory on PATH is (re)moved?
Not exactly, since it requires a check of every hashed filename retrieved from the command hash table. I should have said every *successful* command hash table lookup. > > Failing that, I'd also happily prepare a patch to simply switch the default > to on. Thanks; I think I can handle adding `= 1;'. :-) I will look at doing this for the next version. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/