On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 10:32:02AM -0500, Waiman Long wrote: > On 2/27/20 10:34 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > The canonical argument in favour of negative dentries is to improve > > application startup time as every application searches the library path ^^^^^^^ > > 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.