From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 21 14: 9:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [194.222.196.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D93137B42C for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:09:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3LLAkb80222; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 22:10:46 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3LL9X549119; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 22:09:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200104212109.f3LL9X549119@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?) In-Reply-To: Message from Sheldon Hearn of "Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:34:31 +0200." <67741.987867271@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 22:09:33 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > So we have two problems: > > 1) Calling cp(1) repetitively is inefficient. > > 2) The argument list is too big for cp(1). > > Extending cp(1) will not solve (2). Extending xargs(1) will solve both. > So why is an extension to cp(1) being proposed? I wasn't proposing that cp should be changed - I don't think it should. I'm just guilty of using a stale subject line :-/ > Ciao, > Sheldon. -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message