On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 01:23:01PM -0800, Daniel Colascione wrote: >On 11/29/2010 10:39 AM, Ken Brown wrote: >>On 11/29/2010 8:22 AM, Daniel Colascione wrote: >>>Starting a login shell on my system takes a painfully long time, mostly >>>because fork() is pretty slow on WOW6432 systems. I've taken a look at >>>the shell initialization routines and identified some potential >>>savings: >>> >>>- Can't we use USERNAME to set USER instead of running `id -un`? >> >>You can't rely on USERNAME. For example, if I login via ssh using >>pubkey authentication, USERNAME is set to SYSTEM on my machine. >> > >Works fine for me.
Nevertheless, making /etc/profile rely on a user-settable environment variable is still a bad idea. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
