From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 21 8: 2:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C02E37B422 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 08:02:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@uunet.co.za) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 14qyuO-00038m-00 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:02:48 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id RAA12268 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:02:47 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 12164; Sat Apr 21 17:02:03 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14qyte-0005Th-00 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:02:02 +0200 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 21 Apr 2001 16:51:24 +0200." <200104211451.QAA04891@lurza.secnetix.de> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:02:02 +0200 Message-ID: <21060.987865322@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> From: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 16:51:24 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > That can overflow your shell's command line limit (at the > "for" command). True, our /bin/sh doesn't has such a > limit, AFAIK, but there _are_ shells that do). That's actually my point. What's being proposed is a non-standard extension to work around a problem on a system that already doesn't have the problem. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message