From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 10 22:42:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3D4B37B405 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:42:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0031.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.31] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16DgcF-0002Bj-00; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:42:11 -0800 Message-ID: <3C15AACB.A2FB565B@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:42:19 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jackie 'business-first' Cook Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system References: <20011210221335.ACEB137B405@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jackie 'business-first' Cook wrote: [ ... plot to murder innocent xargs command ... ] Please don't. I use this on a daily basis. It is a much faster way to use find than "exec", since it doesn't require a billion instances of "grep". > As a replacement for the 'functionality' present in xargs(1), I propose > implementing arbitrary length argument list passing right in the operating > system. I would like to see how you propose to do this without making the kernel stack arbirarily large... and hacking up every shell, perl, mush, etc.. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message