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Date:      Sat, 2 Feb 2008 19:33:44 +0000
From:      Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
To:        Hartmut Brandt <hartmut.brandt@dlr.de>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/periodic/security 100.chksetuid
Message-ID:  <20080202193344.GI6064@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <47A49FBF.2010301@dlr.de>
References:  <200802021227.m12CRcZ9008161@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080202145321.GH6064@submonkey.net> <20080202160451.GD11904@zaphod.nitro.dk> <47A49FBF.2010301@dlr.de>

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On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 05:52:15PM +0100, Hartmut Brandt wrote:
> Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
>> On 2008.02.02 14:53:21 +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:
>>> On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 12:27:38PM +0000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>>>> des         2008-02-02 12:27:38 UTC
>>>>=20
>>>>   FreeBSD src repository
>>>>=20
>>>>   Modified files:
>>>>     etc/periodic/security 100.chksetuid   Log:
>>>>   Rewrite to consume significantly less memory, by using find -s inste=
ad of
>>>>   find | sort.  As a bonus, this simplifies the logic considerably.  A=
lso
>>>>   remove the bogus "overruning the args to ls" comment and the corresp=
onding
>>>>   "-n 20" argument to xargs; the whole point with xargs is precisely t=
hat it
>>>>   knows how large the argument list can safely get.
>>> Why use xargs at all?  The "-exec ls -liTd {} +" primary would do the
>>> same thing.
>>=20
>> You would end up executing ls a lot more times with the extra overhead
>> for fork() etc. per file.
>=20
> I think "-exec ... {} +" collects as much arguments before executing just=
=20
> as xargs does. This is different from "-exec ... {} ;" which execs for ea=
ch=20
> argument.

Exactly my point, yes.

Ceri
--=20
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere

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