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Date:      Sat, 16 Mar 2002 09:35:07 +0000
From:      "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Tim J. Robbins" <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au>, freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: patch for review: xargs standards compliance
Message-ID:  <20020316093507.B26394@FreeBSD.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <xzpd6y4voj9.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <20020315231100.A20942@FreeBSD.ORG> <20020316192629.A5254@descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20020316090004.A26394@FreeBSD.ORG> <xzpd6y4voj9.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:40:26AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
> > Solaris not recognising that '' and "" are arguments is probably a 
> > difference in getopt implementations?
> 
> No, Solaris' xargs specifically checks that the argument to -E and -I
> is not empty.  I have the source in front of me.

Should we do this then?

> BTW, '' and "" are the exact same thing - an empty string - as the
> quotes are stripped by the shell before xargs is invoked.

Yes, I am aware.

	/j.

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