Re: When a hashed pathname is deleted, search PATH

[Chet Ramey]

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
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