From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jun 20 17:57: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id 5369637B40A; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:57:00 -0700 From: Juli Mallett To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: feature request for xargs Message-ID: <20020620175700.A96462@FreeBSD.ORG> References: <200206200706.g5K76M514469@freefall.freebsd.org> <3D1187B7.EFE705F2@FreeBSD.org> <20020620005012.A16541@FreeBSD.ORG> <200206202012.17801.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200206202012.17801.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>; from mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com on Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 08:12:17PM -0400 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , X-Affiliated-Projects: FreeBSD, xMach, ircd-hybrid-7 X-Towel: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Mikhail Teterin escriuréres > On Thursday 20 June 2002 03:50 am, Juli Mallett wrote: > = > > Log: > = > > That's right, you can shove your xargs(1) issues in my > = > > direction, and also glad to review changes to it. > > Something like ``xargs -j'' which would spawn off up and wait for up > to N processes. Currently it acts as if N was 1. Specifying 0 should > mean no limit at all. Flag ``-j'' to resemble similar feature of make. Tim J. Robbins and I have been discussing this for a while, and Tim had a patch. I'm CC'ing him, and I'm sure if he still has diffs, he'll be glad to send them here for review I'm sure. I'd been hesitant on this, until we were clear on how it could and would be used, but an arch@ review is probably enough :) -- Juli Mallett | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger jmallett@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message