2.3b2: Slow commands (several seconds) under SunOS / Sparc

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Eric Siegerman <lists08-bzr at davor.org>
> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:02:25 -0500
> Cc: bazaar at lists.canonical.com
> 
> > Is there anywhere we could/should document this, or warn about this,
> > to avoid problems in future?
> 
> Good question.  I'm not inclined to see this as Bazaar's problem,
> or even Python's; it's a standard bit of *NIX lore, that anyone
> messing with PATH-like variables really should know.[*]
> 
> But that's my *NIX bias showing; I presume that Windows users
> aren't stumbling across the issue all the time (if for no other
> reason that on Windows, PATH always implicitly includes ".".)
> 
> What say you, Windows folks?

As someone who uses both Unix and Windows, I don't think this is
Bazaar's problem.  If someone defines PATH variables in a way that
causes some slow and deep directory tree to be searched, it's a local
configuration problem whose only solution is local.

> I suppose it could usefully go in a FAQ somewhere.

Yes, that's where these factoids belong.

> For anyone who intentionally sets things up this way (which might
> under some circumstances be desirable, despite the security
> risk), the constant warnings would be a major pain.

Right.

> Couldn't hurt to write it to .bzr.log though.

Agreed.