Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 03:44:23 -0500 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/xargs xargs.c Message-ID: <20030613034423.A77868@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030613075313.GB3769@HAL9000.homeunix.com>; from das@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:53:13AM -0700 References: <200306130737.h5D7bjY7031884@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030613075313.GB3769@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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* David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> [ Date: 2003-06-13 ] [ w.r.t. Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/xargs xargs.c ] > On Fri, Jun 13, 2003, Juli Mallett wrote: > > jmallett 2003/06/13 00:37:45 PDT > > > > FreeBSD src repository > > > > Modified files: > > usr.bin/xargs xargs.c > > Log: > > Use waitpid, instead of wait3, which is more portable. > > Just out of curiosity, why do we care about the portability of our > own userland utilities to someone else's kernel that doesn't > support wait3()? In case we ever want to be build-anywhere friendly like NetBSD, want to use only the most appropriate functions, or want to reduce diffs with a utility that OpenBSD bothered to sync with us. Thanx, juli. -- juli mallett. email: jmallett@freebsd.org; efnet: juli;
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