On 2012-06-08, at 4:44 PM, Friedrich Psiorz wrote: > I don't really understand how and why this is not the case though, but > I'll try to find out by reading a few more manpages ...
rc caches environment variables. It saves a read(2) every time $foo is referenced. Whether that's a win these days is unknown and deserves a bit of research. Or maybe rc could grow a command that flushes the env cache. --lyndon
