RE: emu built from google code

>interesting, i wonder what that is.

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The Inferno shell prompt.  Sorry about that.
I detect a note of sarcasm :), and you're right.  That's not exactly "working"...
I' about to just stick to the pre-built emu from 20071003 and leave building the Nt environment up to the professionals.

Thanks though!

-Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: inferno-list-admin@... on behalf of Charles Forsyth
Sent: Tue 4/29/2008 3:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [inferno-list] emu built from google code

> While emu compiles and works, it takes a year-and-a-day (~10 minutes) to present the prompt

interesting, i wonder what that is.

>There is a problem on Unix ports where initial login will do the same  
>thing.  This usually only happens during when traversing over a semi- 
>large user list (in my case ~20k).  Very annoying and something that  
>should be fixed at some point.

i thought i had fixed that in devfs-posix.c but if so, only on *unix.
it was previously reading sequentially through the password and group files
instead of calling the functions that might use another indexing system or database.

i did not think there was a similar thing in the Windows devfs.c but perhaps
there is something that has that effect.