Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:15:30 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/xargs xargs.1 xargs.c Message-ID: <XFMail.20030324111530.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200303231829.h2NITqWH016146@repoman.freebsd.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 23-Mar-2003 Maxime Henrion wrote: > mux 2003/03/23 10:29:52 PST > > FreeBSD src repository > > Modified files: > usr.bin/xargs xargs.1 xargs.c > Log: > Add a new -o option to tell xargs(1) to reopen /dev/tty as stdin in > the child process, before executing the command. This is very useful > when you do stuff like ``find ... | xargs interactive_application''. > Without -o, the application would inherit the pipe as its stdin, and > you thus lose any control over it. > > This flag has been carefully chosen to not conflit with other options > of other xargs utilities like GNU xargs. > > Reviewed by: jmallett Why not a more generic option that allows you to specify a file to use for stdin of children? i.e. xargs -o /dev/stdin or xargs -o /dev/fd/6 or something. Also, xargs should probably be fixed to use /dev/null by default so that child processes can't read stuff from the pipe. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?XFMail.20030324111530.jhb>