quadratic behavior for variable append

2005-05-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
GNU Libtool suffers[1] from the fact that repeated concatenation var= for elem in $long_list do var="$var $elem" done scales quadratically in the number of list elements. Now while most if not all common shells exhibit this behavior, and it happens even when you append a constant str

optimization: do not repeatedly use dup()

2005-05-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Why does the shell snippet exec 5>file echo foo >&5 echo bar >&5 cause repeated dup()ing and close()ing of the file descriptor instead of a simple write() to the already open file descriptor, as pointed out in [1]? Looks like a simple optimization to avoid 2 of 3 syscalls (disclaimer: I hav

Help: exit BASH on iBook?

2005-05-12 Thread Jeff Ruth
Title: Help: exit BASH on iBook? Iâve accidentally gotten into the BASH shell on my iBook. The prompt reads: -sh-2.05b# Can someone please tell me how to exit the shell, and return to my normal OS X Panther interface? Many thanks, Jeff Jeffrey S. Ruth, Ph.D. Asst. Prof. o

bug-bash@gnu.org

2005-05-12 Thread info
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The results of your email commands

2005-05-12 Thread bug-cfengine-bounces
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Whats the website name to sign up?

2005-05-12 Thread k1mberl3y
Here's a few questions for you: 1. Are you having trouble finding people to joinup under you or buy from your new business? 2. Can't promote won't promote? 3. Wasting your time? 4. Spending more money than you make from your business? 5. Need joinups and or sales within a week or two? 6. Int