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