Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:04:59 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> Cc: "Tim J. Robbins" <tjr@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: tcsh being dodgy, or pipe code ishoos? Message-ID: <3EF973CB.594401B7@mindspring.com> References: <20030624183515.A42570@FreeBSD.org> <1056499632.662.7.camel@timon.nist> <3EF922BE.4070803@acm.org> <20030625001525.A60867@FreeBSD.org> <20030625074151.GY57612@funkthat.com>
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John-Mark Gurney wrote: > So, now the question is, do we fix xargs to deal with unexpected > children? Or fix the shells in question? (tcsh and zsh seem to suffer > this problem) > > To me, fixing xargs is correct since it prevents another possible > future abusers of this "feature". Fixing the shells is correct, since it means they don't break on the next program like xargs (e.g. have you tried "team", etc. to see if they break too? Even if "team" specifically doesn't, there's no guarantee something else won't...). -- Terry
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