Re: [dwm] dmenu-2.4

Anselm R. Garbe --> dwm (2007-02-23 14:19:12 +0100):
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 01:11:03PM +0000, Frederik Deweerdt wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:50:16AM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote:
> > > I did some benchmarks measuring the difference between
> > > dmenu_path [...]
> > Hi,
> >
> > On my system, this:
> > for i in `echo $PATH | tr : ' '`; do find $i -maxdepth 1 -perm -100 -type f 2> /dev/null ; done | sort -u
> > performs slightly better (~10%) than the ls | awk based approach. I made
> > the measurements without cache (echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches).
>
> I'm not sure if those find arguments are portable enough, can
> someone recheck if it works on BSD and other Unices?

While `-perm' and `-type' are fine, `-maxdepth' is not specified by
POSIX. However, it works fine on NetBSD et al.

Regards, Jukka

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