Bill Shannon wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > > What's the exact filename and how often are the accesses ? Is this an > > interactive shell or is this a script (an interactive shell session will > > do periodical lookups for things like the MAIL*-variables (see ksh(1) > > and ksh93(1) manual pages) while scripts may do random stuff as intended > > by the script's author(s)) ? > > And how does the output of $ set # look like ? > > The filename is /home/shannon/.history.datsun, which is what I have > HISTFILE set to. Again, it's doing setattr, which it shouldn't be doing > for $MAIL. And, based on the dtrace output, the setattrs aren't at > any obvious period.
Do you have an userland stacktrace for these setattr calls ? > Even stranger, despite the fact that I have something > like eight shells running, the calls are coming from a shell from which I > started another (superuser) shell, from which I'm running the dtrace > command. That sounds weired... is it possible that something in the interactive environment may cause this ? > What is "set #"? "set" prints all shell variables (local, global, environment) to stdout including all their values... the '$' character was thought as shell prompt and the '#' character is the shell's comment character to make sure that nothing gets executed past this point when someone is copy&pasting such lines from the email client to the terminal window... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
