Tim J. Robbins wrote this message on Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 19:20 +1000: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:41:51AM -0700, 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". > > Feel free to get rid of the -P option. What tcsh and zsh are doing is a fairly > bad idea though, and it will break more than just xargs. I think -P for xargs is a GOOD option. There are cases that this is very useful. It is pretty trivial to fix too. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."Received on Wed Jun 25 2003 - 08:25:52 UTC
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