Re: zsh portable script

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On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:

> > on my bsd laptop i always have at least one mrxvt with ten shells open. 
> > it seems to make sense to just have root get the info once per minute 
> > and let the shells read it from a file, than have a bunch of shells all 
> > invoking sysctl and all figuring out about the battery.
>
> Are those many shells all frequently generating prompts?  precmd only 
> runs once per prompt.
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my prompts are generated ~about~ twice per minute, per shell. that keeps 
the time and load averages up to date.

they're staggered randomly, so they don't all happen at once.


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