Bill Stouder-Studenmund wrote:
> So while I'm mildly concerned about the 1K this buffer would add, I
> will be VERY upset if this actually gets turned on by default. :-)

What about dynamically allocated, reference-counted strings? I currently 
have 68 processes on my system, but only 10 unique working directories. 
None of the directories has more than 100 characters. That would not 
waste too much (data) memory, though the code may become a little larger.

Roland