From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 13 09:21:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8773D37B401; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp3.server.rpi.edu (smtp3.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99AC443FA3; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:21:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp3.server.rpi.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5DGL5iJ011667; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:21:05 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20030613075313.GB3769@HAL9000.homeunix.com> References: <200306130737.h5D7bjY7031884@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030613075313.GB3769@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:21:03 -0400 To: David Schultz , Juli Mallett From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/xargs xargs.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:21:10 -0000 At 12:53 AM -0700 6/13/03, David Schultz wrote: >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()? So I can steal the code, and recompile it on other OS's, and thus have the -J option available on all the machines I use! (that idea didn't actually occur to me until just this minute, but it is something that I'm probably going to do now that I thought of it...) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu