Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:42:19 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Jackie 'business-first' Cook <jackie@businessman.pl> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system Message-ID: <3C15AACB.A2FB565B@mindspring.com> References: <20011210221335.ACEB137B405@hub.freebsd.org>
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Jackie 'business-first' Cook wrote: [ ... plot to murder innocent xargs command ... ] Please don't. I use this on a daily basis. It is a much faster way to use find than "exec", since it doesn't require a billion instances of "grep". > As a replacement for the 'functionality' present in xargs(1), I propose > implementing arbitrary length argument list passing right in the operating > system. I would like to see how you propose to do this without making the kernel stack arbirarily large... and hacking up every shell, perl, mush, etc.. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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