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Date:      Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:22:16 -0500
From:      Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/xargs xargs.c
Message-ID:  <20030613122216.A10830@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <p05210625bb0fa9e9e905@[128.113.24.47]>; from drosih@rpi.edu on Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:21:03PM -0400
References:  <200306130737.h5D7bjY7031884@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030613075313.GB3769@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <p05210625bb0fa9e9e905@[128.113.24.47]>

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* Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> [ Date: 2003-06-13 ]
	[ w.r.t. Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/xargs xargs.c ]
> 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...)

I have a 'julikit' here, stuff to make a computer useful.  Sort
of a mini-ports tarball I carry around.  Among other things, it
installs our xargs.  I think there may be a bug or two on linux,
but probably not.
-- 
juli mallett. email: jmallett@freebsd.org; efnet: juli;



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