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regarding /etc/profile: suboptimal use of id(1)
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Package: base-files
Version: 5.6
Severity: normal
The current /etc/profile runs id(1) two or three times, please assign
its output to a variable and use that.
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Marco
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On Mon, 24 May 2010, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On May 24, Santiago Vila <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hmm, why?
> It is easy and useful.
>
> > Are you trying to imply that optimizing for something other than speed
> > is unacceptable in *every* context?
> No, but since this script is run at every login it looks like a good
> optimization target to me.
Well, I've measured the "delay" on a computer which is several years old,
and it's in the order of a millisecond, something the user is not
going to notice, so no, it does not look a "good optimization target" to me.
Anyway, the current version does not set umask anymore. pam_umask will
take care of that.
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