On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 10:32:02AM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:

On 2/27/20 10:34 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

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The canonical argument in favour of negative dentries is to improve
application startup time as every application searches the library path

                                                               ^^^^^^^

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for the same libraries.  Only they don't do that any more:

                 ^^^^^^^^^

It is the shell that does the path search, not the command itself.