Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 10:14:35 +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: <20020316101434.A2192@FreeBSD.ORG> In-Reply-To: <xzp8z8svni7.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> <20020316093507.B26394@FreeBSD.ORG> <xzp8z8svni7.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 11:02:40AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:40:26AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > 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? > > Why not? An empty string doesn't make sense for either of them. http://people.freebsd.org/~jmallett/xargs.patch3 freefall% ./xargs -I '' xargs: replstr may not be empty I'm referring to it as 'replstr' as it is referred to as such in: o) The code o) The manpage o) The usage() Thanks, /j. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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