Slowness when setting PS1 variable???

[Thomas Chadwick]

Update.  I've further observed that while running whoami at the command-line 
returns a result immediately, running it inside a pair of back-tics "`" 
shows the blocking behavior.  For instance, if I do this:

$ whoami

I get a result immediately.

However, if I do this:

$ echo `whoami`

It takes a good 5-10 seconds to print a value and return the prompt.


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